https://arne.me/blog/we-need-to-bring-back-webrings
"The year is 1996. You feed your Tamagotchi, get a Squeezit and turn on the
home computer. You’ve told your family they can’t do phone calls for the next
hour. The dial-up modem makes beeping sounds. You’re online.
Yesterday you found this fly website about amateur radio, and you want to
explore more—but how can you find related websites? Yahoo is slow and not
really showing you what you’re looking for. Then you notice that this website
is part of the “Amateur Radio Webring”. You click the arrow to the right and
dive into another website about amateur radio.
You wake up.
The year is 2023. You can no longer get a Squeezit anywhere, you live under
surveillance capitalism and the enshittification is ruining the web. You found
this goofy personal website, and you’d like to browse similar ones. What do you
do? Find the person on socials, look at who they’re following and check if they
have a website?
It’s time to bring webrings back."
Via Esther Schindler.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
