Ask HN: Why are webrings not a thing anymore?

3 pointshidden-spyder1 comment

Considering how much SEO spam ends up in the Google search results, it'd be great if we had webrings to use and forgo finding things through google.

https://tinyads.io/ (HN discussion 2 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26215378) reminded me a bit of webrings: everybody allows a banner and in exchange their website is linked from other websites.