> I mean, the dual-use of a as both anchor and link has always been bizarre. In the original Ted Nelson "Xanadu" conception of hypertext (which inspired Berner

> I mean, the dual-use of a as both anchor and link has always been bizarre. In the original Ted Nelson "Xanadu" conception of hypertext (which inspired Berners-Lee and others at the time), all links were bi-directional. We now use <a name=""> as a target and <a href=""> as a source but the original idea was that every link would be both a target and source – you'd link from one page to another then travel through the bi-directional link backwards and resume the original page. Yeah, it didn't happen because it was grossly impractical didn't serve any real-world purpose. But that's why they share the same tag.