The Subversive Hyperlink - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Subvert the status quo. Own a website. Make and share links.
How Google warped the hyperlink | WIRED UK
Ignore the ludicrously clickbaity title. This is a well-considered look at thirty years of linking on the World Wide Web.
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The perfect link - The A11Y Collective
How do we write, design, and code a link that works for everyone on every device? Let’s dive into the world of creating the perfect link, without making a pig’s breakfast of it.
How We Verified Ourselves on Mastodon — and How You Can Too – The Markup
It gives me warm fuzzies to see an indie web building block like rel="me" getting coverage like this.
What is the Web? - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“Be linkable and accessible to any client” is a provocative test for whether something is “of the web”.
Get Lost on the Web – Dan Q
Internet users use fewer different websites today than they did 20 years ago, and spend most of their “Web” time in app versions of websites (which often provide a better experience only because site owners strategically make it so to increase their lock-in and data harvesting potential). Truly exploring the Web now requires extra effort, like exercising an underused muscle. And if you begin and end your Web experience on just one to three services, that just feels kind of… sad, to me. Wasted potential.
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Browser history
From a browser bug this morning, back to the birth of hypertext in 1945, with a look forward to a possible future for web browsers.
Hope
Hyperlinks are the things with feathers.
Associative trails
How I use my website.
A memex in every web browser
Show me my associative trails.
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