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Isn't the entire Internet a "webring for geeks"? Seriously; what sets this apart from the rest of the net?
by caymanjim 6y ago
Isn't the entire Internet a "webring for geeks"? Seriously; what sets this apart from the rest of the net?
- thih9 6y agoDiscoverability, I suppose.
- hinkley 6y agoAt least one human has voted that this page is worth spending the time to do the data entry task to get it to show up.
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoSites without aggressive SEO and ad placement may as well not exist as far as the Googles of the world are concerned.
- chrisco255 6y agoThis allows for surfing and exploring the web in a non-structured way. If you're not explicitly searching for a site or a site doesn't comes up in a feed you subscribe to, then you'll never discover any of this stuff. Web rings help to decentralize the web and make it more discoverable again.
- pengaru 6y agoThe early internet yes, the modern internet encompasses everyone and everything, it's a victim of its own success from the geek perspective.