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> Right click, search google (Or however FF does it/extension) Which of course relies on a third-party, proprietary service. > A hyperlink should reinforce th
by zeveb 10y ago
> Right click, search google (Or however FF does it/extension)
Which of course relies on a third-party, proprietary service.
> A hyperlink should reinforce the article, not detract from it in a random manner.
Back in the old days, being able to jump around from article to article was considered a virtue. It made the Web like a piece of interactive fiction, and adventure. It was awesome.
- pronoiac 10y agoI miss Suck, which felt like it started not using links for exposition: > Cavanaugh pointed out that one particular lasting legacy of Suck's is the idea of using a link as a rhetorical effect. "People still used italics to make a point in a sentence back then," he said, explaining that the site was one of the first to use a link to let readers know what it was writers were discussing, or to point to a joke. "That was what knocked my socks off about Suck right away, was the idea that oh, the link is this funny thing."[1] I enjoyed it when the link was like a footnote at odds with the text. [1] https://www.engadget.com/2015/09/16/suck-dot-com-20th-anniversary/ https://www.engadget.com/2015/09/16/suck-dot-com-20th-annive...