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by whynotisay
23 days ago
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Nope. There was no "first" site as you say - it was literally just a list of links. The most innovative ones were iframes of a single source of links (iframes were all the rage, unless of course you clicked "no frames" as a user, because your internet was so slow). But even the less formal ones simply listed links to other sites, there was no visit order, and definitely was not directional/circular. It's "ring" like a boxing ring - as in "those within the ring" not a directional loop like you mention. |
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> To be a part of the webring, each site has a common navigation bar; it contains links to the previous and next sites. By selecting next (or previous) repeatedly, the user will eventually reach the site they started at; this is the origin of the term "webring."
But, it was a fundamentally silly structure for the web, so many sites implemented something beyond the ring structure, which is what you're describing. Technically, those weren't webrings in the above sense.
> It's "ring" like a boxing ring
Nice retcon, but wrong.