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webring

webring noun: a collection of related websites which are interlinked in a circular structure, each site having links to the previous and next site in the ring.

Noun

webring (plural webrings)

  1. (Internet, dated) A collection of related websites which are interlinked in a circular structure, each site having links to the previous and next site in the ring.
    • The site had the look of an old Geocities^([sic]) page. Black background, ASCII art, novelty GIFs, visitor counters. There’s a link to the “badday webring” and an audio-only file of the video.2018 January 12, Joe Veix, “The Strange History of One of the Internet's First Viral Videos”, in Wired, →ISSN
    • 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 Coming

Forms of webring

pluralwebrings

Origin of webring

From Web + ring.

Questions about webring

What does webring mean?
Webring means a collection of related websites which are interlinked in a circular structure, each site having links to the previous and next site in the ring.
What part of speech is webring?
Webring is a noun.
What is the plural of webring?
The plural of webring is webrings.

Words near webring in the dictionary

  1. webphones
  2. webpreneur
  3. webpreneurs
  4. Webre
  5. Webres
  6. webring
  7. webrings
  8. webroot
  9. webroots
  10. WebRTC
  11. webs

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