Let's bring back the webring.

The no ai webring is full of really unique stuff. There’s definitively people out there still doing webrings. Now we need a metawebring.

https://baccyflap.com/noai/

Slop sucks and all, but those abandoned "let's make pages look like geocities" sites are pretty tiresome.

Because you don't find them visually interesting or because of their content?

There's a whole world of modern unindexed handcoded html + light js sites that really hearken back to the mid-90s web, and they're often part of webrings.

Yeah I have indexed a lot of em. I'm specifically talking about the ones that try to resemble the archetypal personal geocities site with tiled backgrounds, gifs, and whatnot. I've found that these predominantly were created as part of a web fad and were quickly abandoned.

I am all for handcoded html, SSGs, and minimal-to-no js.

I still enjoy those, because they're very true to the era. How many of us learned html by viewing source and copying bits from the sites we liked with no clearer vision than "I want that on my site, too!"?

To me, _any_ non-commercial human expression on the web is heartening, even if it lacks authenticity or taste. We've all been ruled by the effects of overreach of adtech for far too long.

My mtg site is kind of one of those. I use a static site generator, but I wrote the html templates and CSS myself to match the aesthetic I wanted.

I have robots.txt configured to keep it mostly unmolested, but I don't think it's fully unindexed.

That said, it's not very evocative of 90s web style. I do not miss those days (despite being the owner of a webhosting/design company at the time).

mtg as in magic the gathering?. You can't mention a personal website without linking the website itself

i would love to take a look

Since you asked... https://thenethervoid.com/

There isn't a whole lot there currently, since I'm pretty slow to post. I'm working on some deck analysis pieces currently and have some community-focused articles in draft form on my laptop.

I'm part of one and I don't think it really promotes discoverability. What could work would be some kind of search engine restricted to said webring to make a button to list similar articles. At least I would click on such a button!

I'm on the Merveilles ring and it has such a local/"neighbourhood" search, hosted by one of the members: https://lieu.cblgh.org

Pretty cool, and seems easy to set up

As someone who wasn't around in their true heyday I'm all for it.

Webrings were cool, and I wish I could find some for my own niche hobbies that were curated by dedicated parties.

I also miss Guestbooks, but know that they'd just be a cesspool now.

I joined a web ring last year, but I'm uncertain about it. Modern web rings tend to automate updates to the next/prev buttons, so I'm never sure what I'm linking to. The web ring owner acts as curator, but I don't know how much effort they put in to keep slop or other undesirable content out.

My mom is a hoarder.

It's not ADHD, it's an anxiety disorder. The two things can coexist, but the underlying cause of the hoarding [in most instances, definitely with my mom] is anxiety related to "losing" the items.

This is why you see hoarding triggered by loss so often.

The news report linked in the article has this to say:

> The driver, Zampella, was trapped in the ensuing car fire, the CHP said. He died at the scene and the passenger died at a hospital, authorities told NBC4 Investigates. Details about the passenger's identity were not immediately available.

It's been something like two decades since I last set up a network installer, but iirc, there is a dnsmasq tutorial for pxe booting online.

That used to be the only way to install Linux on apple hardware (think original iMacs here). You could likely find some archived docs there.