I have yet to find another service to match its supreme functionality or beauty in design and now it is gone forever. When Yahoo acquired Webring, they decided the perfectly functional system needed a Yahoo type overhaul. What they did was hack, chop, and stab the system to its death. My own webrings and others like them have been caught in the violence of Yahoo's actions. The toll has been horrific.
Rings are dead or dying everywhere.
It is somewhat comforting to know these rings have found a measure of rest which was much needed after such an ordeal. This page represents both a protest against Yahoo for their actions of vandalism and destruction of a once thriving webring community and a memorial for the old Webring.org. The are two main areas below. The first contains information for joining the protest and the second area contains the casulty listings of as many original 'webring.org' rings as could be tracked down. I hope you will join this effort either in protest or at least to report the status of the webrings victimized by the devastation.