Webring

A webring (or web ring) is a collection of websites linked together in a circular structure, usually organized around a specific theme, and often educational or social.

By selecting next (or previous) repeatedly, the user will eventually reach the site they started at; this is the origin of the term "webring."

[3] By the time Yahoo stopped controlling webring.org in 2001, search engines had become good enough that web rings were no longer as useful.

[3] Denis Howe started EUROPa (Expanding Unidirectional Ring Of Pages) at Imperial College in 1994.

[4] The idea developed further when Giraldo Hierro conceptualized a central CGI (Common Gateway Interface) script to enhance functionality.

bought GeoCities, and eighteen months after the acquisition, on September 5, 2000, Yahoo!

In the years since that change, many of the features which had been stripped by Yahoo!, particularly customization options, were re-implemented into the WebRing system.

In conjunction with the premium membership program, WebRing introduced an affiliate program, in which webmasters earned money when others join webrings from their site, and they earned an additional payment if the new member purchases a premium membership.

[citation needed] An alternative website is Webringo.com,[8] run as a hobby by the RingMaster.

Alt-webring.com[10] used the Ringlink (Free CGI Perl program for running webrings).