webring

plural webrings

1. InternetdatedA collection of related websites which are interlinked in a circular structure, each site having links to the previous and next site in the ring.

   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

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   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