[rumey]

> Yes they were, because geocities didn't control your search results and did not force you to donate 10 seconds to some creepily targeted ad before serving any multimedia experience.

What? Do you remember webrings? How absolutely riddled with shit-tier spam they were? Geocities drove those.

[TeMPOraL]

IIRC, webrings tended to be stuck at the bottom of the page. They didn't pop up or over the content.

[pessimizer]

Weird. I remember them being groups of sites sharing similar subject matter that would all link to each other, so when you found one, you found them all. You may have experienced that differently.