webring
nounEtymology From Web + ring.
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Internet, Dated A collection of related websites which are interlinked in a circular structure, each site having links to the previous and next site in the ring.
- The site had the look of an old Geocities^([sic]) page. Black background, ASCII art, novelty GIFs, visitor counters. There’s a link to the “badday webring” and an audio-only file of the video.2018 January 12, Joe Veix, “The Strange History of One of the Internet's First Viral Videos”, in Wired, →ISSN:
- Each of the member websites in a webring had a navigation area at the bottom of the page that had “next” and “previous” buttons directing surfers to other sites in the ring.2020, Lisa Levenstein, They Didn't See Us Coming:
- Related terms
- blogring, ringmaster