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If a site doesn't get linked to, did it ever exist?

• albertcardona 18y ago
  If a man speaks himself in a forest and no woman can hear him, is he still wrong? Humor aside, you posed an interesting question. The answer is of course yes, the web page exists, but it's not reachable. Which means that for practical purposes, for the society as a whole, it only exists by the manner in which its owner is affected by it in his/her interaction with the world. Which is a very low kind of existence.
  • RossM 18y ago
    Possibly like the average Twitter user then? :) I guess a better line would be "If a page isn't linked to, does it have any significance?". That makes me wonder how many orphaned pages there are on the web. I guess it's uncalculable (within realistic constraints and without attempting to brute force URIs) as they woudn't be indexed by any search engines (unless they crawl the new domain registration lists).