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The pervasive hyperlinkng you mention seems to have a (large) niche in Wikipedia.

• nickpsecurity 10y ago
  So much they use themselves as the canonical example in the image for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink
• zeveb 10y ago
  > The pervasive hyperlinkng you mention seems to have a (large) niche in Wikipedia. True enough, but back when the Web was young everyone linked pervasively. My impression back then is that that was what the Web was for.
  • cmdrfred 10y ago
    That's why its "The Web" no? Many almost randomly interconnected threads? That's how I think of it.
  • zubat 10y ago
    We also didn't have great search capability yet. A document lived alone unless the author took pains to connect it. A lot of my surfing was done via other people's linkdumps. This was good in some respects since it encouraged a high degree of cooperation, but it's definitely easier to access most things now.