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Webrings still exist:
https://baccyflap.com/rsp/
(It’s how we found new sites before search engines.)
To your parenthetical: not really. It was stuff like Gopher, Veronica and Archie.
Webrings were a thing that evolved alongside things like Altavista, before Google became dominant. They’re still a great option, given the current circumstances and low barrier to entry, though.