It's time for episode 550 of the Clockwise podcast from Relay FM.

Recorded Wednesday, April 17th, 2024.

Clockwise, four people, that just had its gears oiled.

I am one of your hosts ticking along.

I'm Micah Sargent, and I am joined across the internet by my good pal, the one,

the only Dan Morin. How you doing, Dan? Oil. I'm doing my best tin man. Oh. I was a little worried

there. I thought we lost you. Oil can. Oracle. Oracle. I got it. I got it. Well, while Dan figures out that impression, let's move along to welcome our wonderful guests to my left.

The senior developer advocate at GitHub, it's Christina Warren. Hi there, Christina.

Hello, I'm glad to be back. Glad to have you. And to my left,

the host of AI Inside and Android Faithful Jason Howells back. Welcome back, Jason. What's up? Good to be here.

I love this show. It's always fun. All right. So you all know how this works. There are four topics in just 30 minutes.

And mine is the one with which we will start. I have a question for you

that starts with a command. Share some early web nostalgia. What is one of the first delightful

things you remember doing on the worldwide web? And again, let it be the delightful things,

not necessarily the, you know, trying to get connected

in the first place. Christina, we'll start with you. Okay. So I'm going to, I'm going to use the

web. I'm not going to use Usenet, although as a fourth grader, I did have fun convincing people on the

alt.combe.morrow's place, Usenenet that I was an adult with my fan theories,

many of which turned out to be true. But I think it was it was web rings. Webrings are like

the first nostalgia thing that I guess kind of comes to mind where you basically would kind of have

these kind of affinity groups of sites together,

and you would all kind of join a web ring, and you would press a button and go to a random site

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