webring
SayWEB-ring/ˈwɛbˌɹɪŋ/
Pluralwebrings
- 1A collection of related websites linked in a circular structure, where each site connects to the previous and next site in the ring.
Like a chain of people holding hands in a circle: follow one link and you eventually come all the way around.
Each member of the webring linked to the next, so visitors could hop from one site to another.
Each of the member websites in a webring had a navigation area at the bottom of the page that had “next” and “previous” buttons directing surfers to other sites in the ring.
2020, Lisa Levenstein, They Didn't See Us ComingNote
A compound of Web and ring, written solid, and the ring is literal: follow the "next" button far enough and you arrive back where you began. The word is dated and now turns up mostly in retrospect. Joe Veix in 2018 sets a webring link beside ASCII art, visitor counters and novelty GIFs on an old Geocities page. Current writing tends to use the past tense: sites belonged to a webring.
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Origin
Formed by combining "web" and "ring".