Can you explain what that is for us youngsters? Something like RSS feeds?
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ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you want to get really old school: I miss web rings.
PlexSheep@infosec.pub 2 months ago
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 months ago
Ah, so basically a list/group of partner sites
blusterydayve26@midwest.social 2 months ago
But, like, for non-commercial fan sites, not for influencers.
whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Not really, because you would click an arrow to get to the next website. It didn’t list everything out.
PlexSheep@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Does that still exist? I have a subpage on my website with interesting links, this could be something for it.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I haven’t seen a web ring in more than 20 years.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Sailor Moon Web Ring 4 Lyfe!
FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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
refalo@programming.dev 2 months ago
real old school is BBS.
yemmly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
real old school is reconfiguring vacuum tubes in your warehouse sized computer
letsgo@lemm.ee 2 months ago
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!