If you are having problems, it may be that you either don't have cookies or JavaScript enabled. Here's why they're necessary:
At a member site,
a click on one of the links on the Network panel will direct the
browser to one of the prev/next/list/rand html pages on the central
site, these pages store a cookie in the browsing machine indicating
which page it is, they then auto load the ring.html page, the
JavaScript on the ring.html page reads the cookie value and acts on it
by auto loading the target member site, which in turn has the Network
member panel pointing back to prev/next/list/rand.html pages.
The cookies are
non-persistent, and are used for navigation throughout the Network only.
The Proto:87 Network WebRing
runs using JavaScript developed by E.P.Joe
Tozer. It does not require any special (cgi) hosting
facility and doesn't require the use of commercial WebRing
hosting,
hence there are no annoying pop ups or advertising splashes. The
WebRing scripts are copyright Joe Tozer http://www.tozer.org.uk