Back in the day the best way to find cool sites when you were on a cool site was to click next in the webring. In this age of ailing search engines and confidently incorrect AI, it is time for the webring to make a comeback.
This person has given his the code to get started: Webring
@mrpalmer16 one of my favorite things back in the day was the old-school “StumbleUpon” which was like webrings on crack.
Unfortunately, advertising and profit-seeking happened.
Ah man, those times were great. Bored? Just push the button and you’ll see something new. No scrolling, just a new website with random interesting stuff to explore.
Old StumbleUpon was everything to me
Wow i got hit right in the nostalgies thinking about StumbleUpon
Oh god, I had it set as my home page for the longest time. I never got anything done but it was great having something new every time we opened our browser.
@bobdobberson @mrpalmer16 omg YES stumbleupon was incredible! I’ve asked around if people remember this and it seems that not a ton of people were on there.
That sounds amazing, I somehow missed it. Some of the other sites posted abovr seem to be trying to bring back the magic.
Stumbleupon was great. I remember having a browser plug in for it. Then I stopped using it for a little while and never went back to it.
Does it still exist?
Nope. Died like Digg and a bunch of others. There’s a run down here (which I only quickly skimmed): https://productmint.com/what-happened-to-stumbleupon/
my go to was Fark. I know it still exits and maybe I’ll start using it again but man that site was great.
FTA
…sad trombone