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Spent $40 on a Geocities webring subscription in 1997
Wanted more traffic for my Sailor Moon fan page. The webring just sent me a bunch of broken links and spammy sites. Anyone else get burned by those early web traffic schemes?
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leo5056mo ago
Remember thinking webrings were the smart way to find an audience. That exact experience taught me most of them were just digital ghost towns. Felt like paying for a map that only led to empty houses.
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skylergrant4mo ago
Just joined a tiny webring once and actually got a few hits from it.
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sanchez.robin6mo ago
Webrings were just links at the bottom of a page. Calling them a paid map is a bit much. It was free to join one. You clicked a link and maybe found a dead site, so what. The whole web was like that in the 90s. It wasn't some big scam, just how things worked back then.
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