Ringspace is an attempt to revive the old concept of webrings, but with an added twist: mutual verification of identity and reputation. Historically, webrings were simply a “doubly-linked list” of sites, in which each member provided links to the previous and next members in the ring. A simple concept, brilliantly effective in its time to organize the web into discrete, discoverable communities in a time before search engines.
Webring
A webring is a collection of websites linked together in a circular structure, usually organized around a specific theme, and often educational or social. They were popular in the 1990s and early 2000s, particularly among amateur websites.
Federated Webrings
In the glory days of web 1.0, social websites would prominently link out to their digital neighbors via lists known as webrings; magical doorways to an expansive hinterland of digital villages.
Webrings | Indie Web DB | Indie Web DB
A database of webrings, made by Petrapixel. Neocities.
Web of trust
In cryptography, a web of trust is a concept used in PGP, GnuPG, and other OpenPGP-compatible systems to establish the authenticity of the binding between a public key and its owner. Its decentralized trust model is an alternative to the centralized trust model of a public key infrastructure (PKI), which relies exclusively on a certificate authority. As with computer networks, there are many independent webs of trust, and any user can be a part of, and a link between, multiple webs.
AT CIRCLE - Home
AT CIRCLE is a webring system for personal sites leveraging ATProto. Connect with like-minded creators and build your community with Bluesky.
HTTP Semantics
The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a stateless application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypertext information systems. This document describes the overall architecture of HTTP, establishes common terminology, and defines aspects of the protocol that are shared by all versions. In this definition are core protocol elements, extensibility mechanisms, and the "http" and "https" Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) schemes. This document updates RFC 3864 and obsoletes RFCs 2818, 7231, 7232, 7233, 7235, 7538, 7615, 7694, and portions of 7230.
Weave
Weave is accelerating the interoperability of the internet's missing trust layer. True community portability. Trust that travels.
Weave
Weave is accelerating the interoperability of the internet's missing trust layer. True community portability. Trust that travels.
oauth-client-metadata.json | AT Protocol Community Wiki
A community-maintained wiki for the AT Protocol ecosystem
Authenticated Transfer: Architecture Overview
Authenticated Transfer (AT) is a collection of protocol components that together provide a generic framework for interoperable social web applications, using global aggregations of interlinked, self-certifying data records. This informational document provides an overview of the entire system, as implemented in late 2025. Some of those components may be in scope as work for the IETF, while other components may not. Many components are general-purpose and may find use outside of the context of AT. The intent of this document is to provide context for how all the components can fit together for certain use cases.
WEBCAT - Verifiable Code for the Web
WEBCAT helps people trust the websites they use by making it possible to verify the code running in their browser.
About Atproto w/ Dan Abramov | Wireframe Live
About Atproto w/ Dan Abramov | Wireframe Live
gregpak.link: Yes We Blog! Webring
A webring for real people who actually blog. Yes, a functioning webring in 2025!
