Quick answer: links. Hypertext. It's important enough to the original vision of this whole contraption to actually be the name. While were reminiscing... In 19

Quick answer: links. Hypertext. It's important enough to the original vision of this whole contraption to actually be the name. While were reminiscing... In 1994, the web felt like technology. You typed in "http://" http://" and it felt exotic. You were connecting to a server. Literally: _a_ server. You wondered what would happen if you hit the same address with gopher or (more likely) telnet. As often as not, something would happen.