I think webring is a generic term anyway, so I don't know what this company wants. you cannot name a product "salt" when used in connection with sodium chloride... marius.
Andy Farnell wrote: > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:56:35 -0400 > marius schebella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> a. Use > > Here's how I remember it Marius. The term "webring" was in use circa 1995, in > the "preteen adolescence" of the internet if you like. There were thousands > of webrings on all subjects from absailing to ZX81 games. They came at a time > when commodity hosting first rolled out and everybody started to have > a website on Geocities and suchlike. While not as popular as BBS, forums, IRC > or any of the other giant internet and pre-web phenomenon, webrings were of a > scale that makes the term a generally understood public domain expression > through common usage. They were a formative version of the social networking > concept by direct association between sites. Any ideas on who coined the term? > I guess you could possibly find references going back to 94 somewhere and > pinpoint a first usage in the archives. > > Fast forward to about 2000. I'm searching for webrings on game modding > about that time and seeing that one company had spamdexed the entire Google > listings down past page 10 with individual entries, many of which were > placeholders and didn't actually seem to exist. Their SEO tactics were so > brutal you had to jump to pages in the low teens before you saw any of the > old independent webrings. It seems since registering the domain in 1997 > they've > systematically been swallowing up private webrings and trying to shut down all > the others for the last 10 years. > > Anyone got any stories or evidence that supports this view? > > a. > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
