webring

Etymology

Web + ring

noun

  1. (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 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. 2018-01-12, 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

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