It seems like most of the links at Downport.com don't work for whatever reason. Is anyone maintaining that site?
My 1e ad&d site has a ring, but its hosted by Dragonsfoot.org, not one of the ring sites.
Well, I'm kind of curious as to why webrings went away. Did high speed net change it or something?
Why did AltaVista or GeoCities go away? Dead or compromised links. Something called Google and social networking was more reliable. Plus 20 years of new Internets. Webring pointed to too many sites with animated HR bars and tiled thumbnail backgrounds. Old news. See archive.org. Google finds old Traveller sites better than Webring does, if that is what you are after. Chrome tells you if a site is not safe.
Well, I'm kind of curious as to why webrings went away. Did high speed net change it or something?
I must have a plugin installed then. Sites that are spoofing are simply blocked from browsing.Chrome only tells you if it has HTTPS or not - HTTPS <> safe site necessarily.
Chrome only tells you if it has HTTPS or not - HTTPS <> safe site necessarily.
And soon it will only indicate that it does NOT have HTTPS - they are changing that icon again. At least according to the last roadmap I looked at.
(Bullets added for clarity, bolding to highlight the relevant features)Chrome://settings - Advanced Options said:Privacy and security
Google Chrome may use web services to improve your browsing experience. You may optionally disable these services. Learn more
- Use a web service to help resolve navigation errors
- Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar
- Use a prediction service to load pages more quickly
- Automatically send some system information and page content to Google to help detect dangerous apps and sites
- Protect you and your device from dangerous sites
- Automatically send usage statistics and crash reports to Google
- Send a "Do Not Track" request with your browsing traffic
- Use a web service to help resolve spelling errors
- Smarter spell-checking by sending what you type in the browser to Google
- Manage certificates
- Manage HTTPS/SSL certificates and settings
- Content settings
- Control what information websites can use and what content they can show you
- Clear browsing data
- Clear history, cookies, cache, and more
There is an option for warning of unsafe sites, based upon a lookup that chrome can do via google. It's not the same feature as the warning for HTTP: vs HTTPS:
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Why did AltaVista or GeoCities go away? Dead or compromised links. Something called Google and social networking was more reliable. Plus 20 years of new Internets. Webring pointed to too many sites with animated HR bars and tiled thumbnail backgrounds. Old news. See archive.org. Google finds old Traveller sites better than Webring does, if that is what you are after. Chrome tells you if a site is not safe.
Why did AltaVista or GeoCities go away? Dead or compromised links. Something called Google and social networking was more reliable. Plus 20 years of new Internets. Webring pointed to too many sites with animated HR bars and tiled thumbnail backgrounds. Old news. See archive.org. Google finds old Traveller sites better than Webring does, if that is what you are after. Chrome tells you if a site is not safe.
I guess what I wanted to say earlier is that hobbies seem to vacillate on the web. A group becomes popular, then fades because people get bored and move on. I've seen it happen with model trains, D&D, various computer games, and so forth. Oh well.
Just like in real life.