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Let's bring back the webring. (gusbus.space)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Back in the day the best way to find cool sites when you were on a cool site was to click next in the webring. In this age of ailing search engines and confidently incorrect AI, it is time for the webring to make a comeback.

This person has given his the code to get started: Webring

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago (3 children)

@mrpalmer16 one of my favorite things back in the day was the old-school "StumbleUpon" which was like webrings on crack.

Unfortunately, advertising and profit-seeking happened.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Ah man, those times were great. Bored? Just push the button and you'll see something new. No scrolling, just a new website with random interesting stuff to explore.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Old StumbleUpon was everything to me

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Wow i got hit right in the nostalgies thinking about StumbleUpon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Oh god, I had it set as my home page for the longest time. I never got anything done but it was great having something new every time we opened our browser.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Stumbleupon was great. I remember having a browser plug in for it. Then I stopped using it for a little while and never went back to it.

Does it still exist?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Nope. Died like Digg and a bunch of others. There's a run down here (which I only quickly skimmed): https://productmint.com/what-happened-to-stumbleupon/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

FTA

eBay announced that it had agreed to acquire StumbleUpon for a whopping $75 million. The acquisition ultimately went through on May 30th, 2007. One of the major reasons why the team decided to sell to eBay was that it was promised complete autonomy and independence from its mother company

...sad trombone

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@bobdobberson @mrpalmer16 omg YES stumbleupon was incredible! I've asked around if people remember this and it seems that not a ton of people were on there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

That sounds amazing, I somehow missed it. Some of the other sites posted abovr seem to be trying to bring back the magic.