Why Hyperlinks are Not Great

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The history of hyperlinks is fascinating and it goes much deeper back in time that one can expect. Long before the advent of internet, or even a modern computer was invented, people started to conceptualise an idea of linking two data points electronically. Linking documents to other documents.

Ted Nelson was the first to coin the term “hypertext” and later “hyperlink” back in 1960s.

Tim Berners-Lee together with colleagues at CERN developed with WWW, HTML and URI specs on 1990, which is how the modern hyperlinks were born.

writing on Aleks Gorbenko

Why Hyperlinks are Not Great