Webrings have come back to the web! I’ve proudly joined Marty McGuire’s new IndieWebring which you’ll find in the sidebar of my front page. ⚜
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Chris Aldrich
I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, IndieWeb, theoretical mathematics, and big history. I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media. View all posts by Chris Aldrich
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Me too!
I’ve had refbacks on the brain for the past couple of months after having read Why Refback Still Matters, so I figured since I’ve already got the pingbacks, trackbacks, and webmentions enabled, what’s one more way to communicate with my website from the outside? So as of this evening, just for fun, I’m now accepting refbacks too.
Besides earlier this week I joined my first webring in over a decade as well. It can’t be any more embarrassing to support old web tech can it? #everythingoldisnewagain
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Gah! This brings back half forgotten memories. I was a RingMaster on both Webring.org and Ringsurf. Plus I actually ran a Science Fiction/Fantasy webring hosting site via a nice free Perl script for a few years. I never thought in my wildest imaginings that somebody would revive the webring concept, but it fits with the theme of the Indieweb movement. (BTW: Ringsurf appears to be still around but I have no idea how it works today.)
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