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We Need to Bring Back Webrings

Posted on November 14^th, 2023 from Frankfurt, Germany

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^1.
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.

Introducing the Fire Chicken Webring; an invite-only webring for
personal websites. You can explore this webring by going to the
footer of this website and clicking on either arrow to navigate to
another personal website.

If we're friends, or I follow you anywhere, @ me and I'll add you. If
not, here's some other modern webrings^2: Hotline Webring, Sidebar.io
Webring, a11y-webring.club, and CS.Sjoy.lol.

Own a niche website? Why not start your own webring?

 1. For full immersion, see this video. -

 2. Know of more? Please reach out to me. -


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