Sim Racing Webring

What is the Simwiki Sim Racing Webring?

A webring (or web ring) is a collection of websites linked together in a circular structure, usually organized around a specific theme, and often educational or social.[1] They were popular in the 1990s and early 2000s, particularly among amateur websites. [1]

The Simwiki Sim Racing Webring is exactly what you remember of webrings from the old web, back when the internet a rich trove to mine and not a corporate service designed to feed us endless hollow content by the algorithm. Join the old web and reclaim your digital sovereignty.

Many sim racing fans will be young enough to have never experienced web rings or the old web, for that matter. Just know that webrings put the originally designed power of the web back into your hands. You are in control. You can even join the webring and include your own website in it.

IndieWeb is a community of people building software to enable personal independently hosted websites to maintain their social data on their own web domains rather than on large, centralized social networking services.

Interest in webrings is returning to a resurgence of the old web or the IndieWeb.

How to join the Simwiki Sim Racing Webring?

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Learn More About the Old Web and IndieWeb

The old web and IndieWeb are related but different concepts. The old web refers to the actual historical web before individual platforms really took over (eg. Facebook, X/Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube).

The old web is known by other names: Web Revival, Personal Web, Small Web, Yesterweb, Retro Web, Lofi Web, Fun Web, Directory Web, Tilde Web, Low-tech Web, Neocities Web, etc.

From the IndieWeb Wikipedia page:

The IndieWeb is based on 10 core principles:

    Own your data.
    Use & publish visible data for humans first, machines second.
    Make what you need.
    Use what you make.
    Document your stuff.
    Open source your stuff.
    UX and design is more important than protocols, formats, data models, schema etc.
    Modularity.
    Longevity.
    Plurality.

and an informal eleventh: "Above all, Have fun."