#webrings

It is 2026 and trying to search for anything online is like asking a hallucinating copper wire for directions. We have officially entered the Era of the Dark Forest Web where the corporate internet is just bots talking to bots, meaning nature is healing and we are going back to the digital underground. People are abandoning the algorithmic feed for 1998-style webrings because we'd rather trust a stranger's unhinged hyper-fixation than AI-sludge.your digital survival starter pack:Go feral: Hard-code a raw HTML personal site.Webrings are back: Connect with niche, human-curated hubs.Gatekeep aggressively: Treat your favorite URLs like family secrets.

can we bring back webrings? I'm sick of social media, and search engines, and wasting time. I just want a bunch of curated links to people's personal websites. I want the old internet back.

I miss webrings, though I guess in a lot of ways tumblr is the closest thing they have to a proper success 🤔