Aha, that explains the framing of citations as support instead of as a low-tech hyperlink* for people who want to know more. (and come to think of it, it also

Aha, that explains the framing of citations as support instead of as a low-tech hyperlink* for people who want to know more. (and come to think of it, it also explains why they'd even suggest an article full of hyperlinks could be a bad thing?) * bear skins and stone knives were all we had, pre-1993: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web#:~:text=CERN%20made%20the,its%20widespread%20use%2e https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web#:~:text=CERN%20... EDIT: and let's not forget that the whole scientific edifice arose out of scholarly apparatus the doctors of divinity had been using in order to keep track of arguments about how many angels could dance on the head of a pin; we can let the eloi do eloi things if we're confident we can always eventually rederive morlock things from that protoculture. Exercise: how does always eventually differ from eventually always?