The Hacker Webring

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Welcome to the humble homepage of our webring! This is a collection of personal- and project webpages of fellow hackers. Each site links to two different webpages: one "before" and one "after" it. All sites together create a ring-like topology. Read more about webrings...

Any hacker, creator, artist is free to join this webring with their own webpage. However, there are a few rules to follow.

Hackers Are Not Cybercriminals

This page is for hackers, but not in the Hollywood sense. We are a global community of entities that look at the world at a vastly different angle. We find opportunities to create, change, and improve the world around us. We think outside the box, finding new and exciting ways to use our existing resources. We, hackers, are not criminals, unless doing as we please with our lives becomes a crime.

Active pages

  1. dmi old computers, networks, Bash and other queer stuff
  2. Lili touching old puters, rally games, owner hopes she's cute
  3. famfo I like internet standarts and low level stuff
  4. q3k hw re etc
  5. Andy Hardware hacking, reverse engineering, nerd things
  6. 0x6e6174 natalie hypertexts. repository of horrifying uses of the python interpreter
  7. taavi computer infrastructure toucher
  8. sn0w silly girl messing with old tech
  9. Jana self-hosting, computer networking, kubernetes touching and bsd adventures
  10. naph security, bad code and cooking
  11. grawity lost in the network
  12. ISSOtm Game Boy, Rust 🦀, programming nerdery!
  13. Jona projects, blog, cat pictures
  14. darkuss a silly place for a silly person
  15. kleinesFilmroellchen webpage full of projects, art, writing and other cat sillies
  16. Jak2k Linux, Web, IndieWeb & Rust nerd
  17. MSD Making old computers useful again :3
  18. noelle The personal work and knowledge repository of Noelle Leigh.
  19. node5_dot_net Tinkering galore: dev, electronics, self hosting, pretty colors
  20. 9hax my personal homepage listing some of my photos, projects and a bit of autistic rambling (a blog)
  21. nkali old and weird computers, a bit of pixelated anime girls and lots of snark
  22. QUFB reverse engineering and emulation
  23. kyo open-source projects, infra, and other silly things
  24. LFA Personal site with software projects and articles about *NIX systems, self hosting, decentralization, retrocomputing,...
  25. 5225225 a bot beeping into the void
  26. evgandr Dragon's lair with posts about BSD, Thinkpad, retrocomputing and photography
  27. srxl fox on the internet
  28. Daniel_Westhof 3D-printing, electronics and other creative projects.
  29. vavakado rants about tech, philosophy and self
  30. Gabs personal website with random stuff I feel is worth sharing
  31. baccyflap_dot_com last homely page east of the tubes
  32. skoove i like touching computers to code and write
  33. Vincent I'm Vincent and this is my website.
  34. H3 cool minty looking site for sometimes posting about my silly electronics and software
  35. FloppyMuseum A history of floppies, served from a 286 (and an ircd and a bbs, too!)
  36. 31a05b9c some thing made a useless site
  37. dalem software, "surrealism", art
  38. amnexya I like making things on the internet.
  39. HisVirusness Blog/personal platform/functional portfolio of a multimedia artist who created their own markup just to write the content of their website easily. Whack. Job. Exclamation point.
  40. clehaxze Journey in tech, life and rambling of whatever
  41. 760ceb3b9c0ba4872cadf3ce35a7a494 personal home page with my software projects
  42. wolfyjade the one with the train and computer tism :3
  43. Theo I like to share what interests me.
  44. Infected_Systems random ramblings about Linux, IPv6 and other technology. hosted on a Nintendo Wii
  45. foxboron FOSS Hacker
  46. Karasu_Shima Personal website about a guy who loves creating, and technology
  47. mei compilers, proof assistants, low level wizardry and other compsci
  48. InnocentZero A coven of digital treasure
  49. xrvs irregular rants, reading logs, and some creative stuff if we feel daring
  50. Miscellany A collection of things I am interested in
  51. zacharykai Offbeat queer, zinester, avowed generalist.
  52. wrywerytwreywery whatever comes to mind, whenever it comes to mind.
  53. durathrur elaborate css and worldbuilding
  54. starprograms Just another personal website :D, made my own guestbook though!
  55. Ferox Ramblings of a cat on the internet
  56. sakura Recreational programming, self-hosting, and whatever else.
  57. breakgimme personal webpage with links to my stuff
  58. klaxzy it is about computers and modular synths
  59. nulsie my site, big on cs, especially coding, pen-ops, networking and Linux
  60. SitheanHome Personal Website of mine.
  61. eth0fox the fox inside your ethernet cable
  62. jn jn's miscellaneae
  63. barto-nemo queerry sober fox with ecosystem
  64. pcarrin personal site with code, photography, art, and whatever else
  65. ash a personal website of someone who likes cybersecurity.
  66. radi0dev a foxgirl who loves computers (^0ω0^)
  67. iDestyKK personal site, blog, teachings, and more
  68. 4cm3 SRE / Unioner / Antifa
  69. skizysWebsite skizy's home on the internet
  70. Katlavan incorrect use of technology?
  71. k4zza Ham radio, old computers and the great outdoors!
  72. sebsite sebsite sebsite sebsite sebsite
  73. S1LV3R nerdy shit and whatever i find interesting

Rules

Hacking is a very broad term. Our webring welcomes pages from all entities that consider themselves to be hackers or a part of the broader hacker community. That being said, the following rules are to be observed:

  1. Absolutely no commercial pages, this is not an ad catalogue.
    Selling stuff through the page is fine, as long as that's not its main focus.
  2. Neither the front page nor the ring landing page should include NSFW material, flashing lights, jumpscares or similar content.
  3. By definition, the hacker community is diverse, and will only get queerer. Deal with it or join us.
    {homo,trans,queer,plural,xeno}phobic and racist pages are NOT allowed.
  4. Imagery and texts created by generative AI technologies are universally frowned upon.
  5. The page has to be reachable through simple browsers (for example links2 and Dillo). It's fine if not everything renders properly - as long as it's readable, we'll consider it valid :)
    Using anubis? Try iocaine instead!
To protect the ring from fractures, our scripts will try to reach all pages roughly twice per day to check whether all of them still link back to the ring. This is usually just one request and our user agent is WebringBot/1.0 (http://ring.acab.dev). If no server can be reached or the response doesn't link back to the ring the page is popped out of the ring. If it doesn't return for a few weeks we'll remove it from our systems entirely.

Adding a page

  1. Pick one of the designs below, or create one.
  2. Put it somewhere on the website. A sidebar or footer are common places.
  3. Fill out the rest of this form and wait for the page to get vetted by existing users.
  4. Once a page is accepted it will be added to the ring.
  5. Afterwards, the submitter can help the project by reviewing new submissions.
[A-Za-z0-9_-]*
^https?://.*\..*
re-roll token

Linkback designs

Note: all of the following designs are personalized with a random ID. That ID will change after a page refresh, so make sure to copy the code and submit the form in one go!

Name Preview
small.htm A previous track button A shuffle button! A next track button A glider!
HTML code… <map name="webring"> <area alt="A previous track button" title="Previous!" href="//ring.acab.dev/prev/cfd62cc338" coords="12,26,34,43" shape="rect"> <area alt="A shuffle button!" title="Surprise me~" href="//ring.acab.dev/rand/cfd62cc338" coords="37,26,59,43" shape="rect"> <area alt="A next track button" title="Next!" href="//ring.acab.dev/next/cfd62cc338" coords="62,26,84,43" shape="rect"> <area alt="A glider!" title="So, what is this webring thing about again?" href="//ring.acab.dev/" coords="88,25,108,45" shape="rect"> </map> <img style='image-rendering:pixelated;' usemap="#webring" src="//ring.acab.dev/img/webring.gif">
small-2x.htm A previous track button A shuffle button! A next track button A glider!
HTML code… <map name="webring-2x"> <area alt="A previous track button" title="Previous!" href="//ring.acab.dev/prev/cfd62cc338" coords="24,52,68,86" shape="rect"> <area alt="A shuffle button!" title="Surprise me~" href="//ring.acab.dev/rand/cfd62cc338" coords="74,52,118,86" shape="rect"> <area alt="A next track button" title="Next!" href="//ring.acab.dev/next/cfd62cc338" coords="124,52,168,86" shape="rect"> <area alt="A glider!" title="So, what is this webring thing about again?" href="//ring.acab.dev/" coords="176,50,216,90" shape="rect"> </map> <img style='image-rendering:pixelated;' usemap="#webring-2x" src="//ring.acab.dev/img/webring-2x.gif">
long.htm A previous track button A shuffle button! A next track button A glider! A hidden passage lies in front of the reader. Will they click?
HTML code… <map name="webring-long"> <area alt="A previous track button" title="Previous!" href="//ring.acab.dev/prev/cfd62cc338" coords="9,8,31,25" shape="rect"> <area alt="A shuffle button!" title="Surprise me~" href="//ring.acab.dev/rand/cfd62cc338" coords="34,8,56,25" shape="rect"> <area alt="A next track button" title="Next!" href="//ring.acab.dev/next/cfd62cc338" coords="59,8,81,25" shape="rect"> <area alt="A glider!" title="So, what is this webring thing about again?" href="//ring.acab.dev/" coords="244,7,266,28" shape="rect"> <area alt="A hidden passage lies in front of the reader. Will they click?" href="//ring.acab.dev/egg" coords="231,13,239,19" shape="rect"> </map> <img style='image-rendering:pixelated;' usemap="#webring-long" src="//ring.acab.dev/img/webring_long.gif">
long-2x.htm A previous track button A shuffle button! A next track button A glider! A hidden passage lies in front of the reader. Will they click?
HTML code… <map name="webring-long-2x"> <area alt="A previous track button" title="Previous!" href="//ring.acab.dev/prev/cfd62cc338" coords="18,16,62,50" shape="rect"> <area alt="A shuffle button!" title="Surprise me~" href="//ring.acab.dev/rand/cfd62cc338" coords="68,16,112,50" shape="rect"> <area alt="A next track button" title="Next!" href="//ring.acab.dev/next/cfd62cc338" coords="118,16,162,50" shape="rect"> <area alt="A glider!" title="So, what is this webring thing about again?" href="//ring.acab.dev/" coords="488,14,532,56" shape="rect"> <area alt="A hidden passage lies in front of the reader. Will they click?" href="//ring.acab.dev/egg" coords="462,26,478,38" shape="rect"> </map> <img style='image-rendering:pixelated;' usemap="#webring-long-2x" src="//ring.acab.dev/img/webring_long-2x.gif">
ascii-window.htm 
+---------------------------+--+
|  meow                     |.X|
+---------------------------+--+
|    This page is a part of    |
|   --<The Hacker Webring>--   |
| <- prev | - rand - | next -> |
+------------------------------+

HTML code… <pre> +---------------------------+--+ | meow |<a href="//ring.acab.dev/">.X</a>| +---------------------------+--+ | This page is a part of | | --&lt;The Hacker Webring&gt;-- | | <a href="//ring.acab.dev/prev/cfd62cc338">&lt;- prev</a> | <a href="//ring.acab.dev/rand/cfd62cc338">- rand -</a> | <a href="//ring.acab.dev/next/cfd62cc338">next -&gt;</a> | +------------------------------+ </pre>
88_31.htm

The first third of a 88x31 with a glider and arrow going to the left The middle third of a 88x31 with the text Hacker Webring on it. In the background of the text is a ring with an offset shadow. The last third of a 88x31 with a glider and arrow going to the right


HTML code… <!-- Note: the webring container is only here for demonstration purposes. If this is on a webpage with a dark background, this should not be nesseceary. The text-decoration can also be disabled in another way for these links, this is just for copy, paste, works without additional CSS :) --> <div class="webring-container" style=" background: #0b0d0e; width: fit-content; padding: 5px; " > <a href="//ring.acab.dev/prev/cfd62cc338" style="text-decoration: none"> <img style="image-rendering: pixelated" src="//ring.acab.dev/img/webring_88_31_01.png" alt="The first third of a 88x31 with a glider and arrow going to the left" /> </a> <a href="//ring.acab.dev" style="text-decoration: none"> <img style="image-rendering: pixelated" src="//ring.acab.dev/img/webring_88_31_02.png" alt="The middle third of a 88x31 with the text Hacker Webring on it. In the background of the text is a ring with an offset shadow." /> </a> <a href="//ring.acab.dev/next/cfd62cc338" style="text-decoration: none"> <img style="image-rendering: pixelated" src="//ring.acab.dev/img/webring_88_31_03.png" alt="The last third of a 88x31 with a glider and arrow going to the right" /> </a> </div>

All designs listed above are free to use and modify. New designs can be contributed here. Thanks!

Custom designs

A linkback has to consist of at least a "previous" and "next" buttons, in any form. It can optionally include a random button; Linking to the main page of the ring is also encouraged.

We expose the following endpoints:

All pages are accessible over HTTP and HTTPS for maximum compatibility.

Contact and support

For any questions and inquires about the service, please join #webring on hackint (IRC/Matrix/XMPP).

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