I’m really surprised by the love of web rings shown here. Even in the late 90s they felt cheesy, and by the early 2000s seemed like most of them were prey to scams. There must have been some sort of typo-squatting thing going on because I recall clicking some web ring links and then suddenly you’d get to a site that had nothing to do with the topic at hand. In fact, the way I remember it, usually after 1 to 2 links in the ring, you were off in left field at something completely unrelated. Maybe I was just unlucky? I do remember getting spammed with requests to add my site to many web rings, all of which seemed very poorly run. Maybe it had something to do with the particular topics I had on my site? I don’t really know.