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Funny timing, I just blogged about webrings on my personal website a few days ago: https://merlinscholz.name/post/bring-back-the-old-web/

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I have seen few people with webrings on HN as of recent. Hard to tell if it's gaining momentum or I am just lucky?

Example: I was reading https://www.jefftk.com/index yesterday which also included webring.

I don't know if they are, I think, a bit, the "old web" is actually huge, but getting into it takes some effort.. Sometimes, you find these hub-like sites, for example when browsing a webring (shameless plug geekring.net ), that leads deeper into some neocities commune or similar, it's great fun :)

My site is also using Drev DeVault’s openring, which is a relatively new tool.

Opening really is a godsend for starting a webring, especially in combination with some static site generator like Hugo.

Random question, since your site came up: what do your kids use to make their personal pages? Thinking of doing something similar with my 7-year-old and 4-year-old this fall.

They dictate and I type plain html + css. Sometimes they ask for complicated things (like when Lily first wanted polka dots) and I look it up.

Lily's Inxed page and RSS feed are from a script I wrote that does it manually: https://github.com/jeffkaufman/webscripts/blob/master/lilyrs...

I wrote about this some here: https://www.jefftk.com/p/helping-the-kids-post

I loved pony podcast lol.

Haha ... Lily's blog is great. Good job, Dad.

That looks so cool. Thanks for the blogpost, I've been a bit burned out lately for personal projects, but once I get some recovery time and reboot I also wanted to extend my personal blog and I will definetly adopt the idea!

It's important to share knowledge to next generations. This technology was invented around the time I was born

1) It's Drew DeVault, not Drev Devault (as listed multiple times throughout your site)

2) Would love if you made a link out of "Homelab" in your About Me sidebar, which linked to a post explaining what it is. I just read about a "homelab" on HN yesterday, and would like to know more!

Thank you. The lack of the capital V also turned me off as a potential user of the site. Not only was it wrong once, but multiple times. I think it's mistakes like these that need to be really examined as a site owner.

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