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If you want to get really old school: I miss web rings.
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real old school is BBS.
BBS
real old school is reconfiguring vacuum tubes in your warehouse sized computer
Ha, you kids and your fancy new fangled vacuum tubes. REAL old school is using a bunch of relays we nicked from the local telephone exchange!
Can you explain what that is for us youngsters? Something like RSS feeds?
As a website owner, you would just register your site with a ring and then add a bit of HTML at the bottom of your page which would display the randomly-selected banner of another site in the ring (and your banner would sometimes be displayed on another site). So visitors could just click on the banners and be taken through a circuit of interesting (sometimes) websites.
Ah, so basically a list/group of partner sites
But, like, for non-commercial fan sites, not for influencers.
Not really, because you would click an arrow to get to the next website. It didn't list everything out.
Does that still exist? I have a subpage on my website with interesting links, this could be something for it.
I haven't seen a web ring in more than 20 years.
Sailor Moon Web Ring 4 Lyfe!
In my experience a lot of programming blogs still have them, but then again those are the people who are most capable of adding them and who are mostly likely to find them