In Praise of the Hyperlink

Jun 26, 2006

Technology

In Praise of the Hyperlink: “Anybody could create anchors containing hypertext references. Just about everybody did. The Web grew exponentially in size and popularity. With every new web page and every hyperlink, the expanding Web became a more valuable and powerful aggregate resource.” Via

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