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submitted 1 month ago by mrpalmer16@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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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[-] superkret@feddit.org 14 points 1 month ago

It exists because web browsers used to not have tabs. Nowadays it's useless cause with modern scripted web pages you never properly get back to the site you left

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 4 points 1 month ago
[-] superkret@feddit.org 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Then the entire browser becomes useless. I couldn't even post this comment without JavaScript.

Edit: I wish a search engine that only showed websites without JavaScript existed.

[-] Hammerheart@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

Duckduckgo has a no javascript mode.

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