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

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    5 months ago

    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?

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        5 months ago

        FTA

        eBay announced that it had agreed to acquire StumbleUpon for a whopping $75 million. The acquisition ultimately went through on May 30th, 2007. One of the major reasons why the team decided to sell to eBay was that it was promised complete autonomy and independence from its mother company

        …sad trombone

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        5 months ago

        my go to was Fark. I know it still exits and maybe I’ll start using it again but man that site was great.