There’s probably a different word for it, but linkhole like rabbithole.
You went to this one site, and it mentioned some other site, and they kept your interest and kept linking on to others and you’ve surfaced just long enough to share here.
Nibling, that’s what we used to call “surfing the web”. Google all-but killed it with their ranking algo that heavily disincentivizes outgoing links, but pre-google, which was also pre-Web2.0 (what we now call “social media”, it was a dominant way to spend time online; that, and the old-school fora.
I thought of “surfing the web” as more of a superficial approach personally. I was thinking more along the lines of “researching” or digging through sites with a similar topic but each went deeper or in different directions than the first.
Although on second thought and a little looking around, it looks like “net diver” never took off as its own term? What strange rocks have I been under? 😵
There used to be link rings of sites with similar interests.
There still ate, for webcomics and certain kinds of blogs.
Not too much of a rabbit hole, but it’s fun to waste some time on some small thing here and there. I find a lot of fun or weird stuff there and I love it.
Ok, I’ve spent way too much time on the sites on there. Enjoyable as fuck.
Wikipedia and TVTropes, I guess. But that’s staying on one site, not going from site to site.
Frankly, I never partook in stuff like webrings or StumbleUpon even back when they were a thing.
Not since the days of yore when there were DBZ websites with affiliate links. Lol
