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navigation 1997 still works

The prev / random / next strip that linked thousands of hobby sites together.

In 2026: The markup works fine. The ring servers it pointed at (WebRing, RingSurf) are mostly gone, so you now host the ring yourself.

Where it came from: WebRing, started by Sage Weil in 1995. RingSurf and the other ring hosts copied the fragment shape. Wikipedia ↗

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