Back then people made affiliates with each other based on category of the sites so you'd have these little buttons with logos of other sites in the ring. It was a way of findingnsimilar content when social media wasn't a thing and searches weren't as robust
I remember I used to read a lot of early video game web comics and they'd all have each other on the sidebar
That sounds really fun, getting recommended similar things based on what the creator thinks you might like rather than being a targeted demographic by amazon.
Yea I mean it was subject to capitalist shit too. Like I'm seem to remember big sites charging for affiliate links and stuff. But yea a lot of it was just like "oh yea i fw your content."
I probably found most of the sites i visited in thr 90s that way or just in chatrooms or friends by word of mouth. Ironically it some ways it was more communal before social media, everything was shared by people and not as much by algorithms
I've been a little scared to ask, but what's a web ring?
Back then people made affiliates with each other based on category of the sites so you'd have these little buttons with logos of other sites in the ring. It was a way of findingnsimilar content when social media wasn't a thing and searches weren't as robust
I remember I used to read a lot of early video game web comics and they'd all have each other on the sidebar
That sounds really fun, getting recommended similar things based on what the creator thinks you might like rather than being a targeted demographic by amazon.
Yea I mean it was subject to capitalist shit too. Like I'm seem to remember big sites charging for affiliate links and stuff. But yea a lot of it was just like "oh yea i fw your content."
I probably found most of the sites i visited in thr 90s that way or just in chatrooms or friends by word of mouth. Ironically it some ways it was more communal before social media, everything was shared by people and not as much by algorithms
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