What happened to them? Webrings were a form of social network and modern centralized social networks with media capabilities ate them. MySpace, Friendster, Fl

What happened to them? Webrings were a form of social network and modern centralized social networks with media capabilities ate them. MySpace, Friendster, Flickr, Facebook, Instagram, Digg, Reddit and all the rest - they depopulated webrings, which drastically reduced the value in the network rings. People have N time in the day to post content. They chose the easier, heavily networked publishing systems to use.