That's more or less what Ted Nelson envisioned in Xanadu and that's why he usually says that modern cut and paste has nothing to do with the real cut and paste

That's more or less what Ted Nelson envisioned in Xanadu and that's why he usually says that modern cut and paste has nothing to do with the real cut and paste and he consider it “a crime against humanity.” Even though he's friend with Larry Tesler, the man responsible for our modern use of cut and paste Links should bring back to the original source not point to some random text, with no context, that needs to be indexed