Der Web-Ring, den es früher gab, hatte seinen Grund. Hier steht etwas zur Geschichte der Web-Ringe:
https://brisray.com/web/webring-history.htm[*quote*]
Webring History
Introduction
I know some of you won't believe me, but a long time ago, when the internet was young, there was no such thing as Google. Honestly, I'm not making that up. By the time I started this site in 1999, most of the current search engines had already been around for a couple of years, Excite, Google, Lycos, MSN, WebCrawler, Yahoo and the rest but they were slow and hadn't indexed that many sites. Not that there many around, around 2 million as compared to today's 1 billion (January 2014). In January 2023, there are around 2 billion.
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Das muß man gelesen haben. Was unsere Gründer getan haben, war beachtlich. Weil nichts sicher ist, auch der ganz große Web-Ring ging 2020 vor die Hunde, habe ich diese Erinnerungsseite im Archiv gesichert:
http://www.allaxys.com/~aktenschrank/WEBRING/Webring_History.htm