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Pro tip: old webrings and .edu personal pages still link to blogs nobody indexes anymore
Last week I clicked through a 2003 webring page from a retired professor in Boise and found 14 still-updating blogs about things like restoring church organs and growing figs in zone 5, and every single one gets zero comments, so does anyone else have a bookmark folder of these or am I just hoarding dead links?
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umasullivan6d ago
Wait, can we talk about how you found a webring page that still works at all? I have tried clicking old ring links before and most of them just lead to parked domains or error pages, so the fact that you landed on a live one from Boise feels like finding a four leaf clover. I have a whole folder called "quiet places" that is nothing but blogs like the ones you described, someone in Vermont writing about fixing up a stone wall one rock at a time, a guy in Wales who posts photos of the same tree every week. None of them get comments and most have no idea anyone is even reading, and there is something oddly nice about that, like sitting in the back of a tiny church nobody goes to. You are not hoarding dead links, you are keeping a little map of people who are still making things for no audience at all. That is a good thing to collect.
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