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A hyperlink lets one document open into another, turning web reading into a network of chosen paths.

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Why it matters

The idea in context

Print already had footnotes and references, but the web made the jump immediate. One underlined phrase could move a reader from a document to an archive, from a claim to a source, from one mind to another. The hyperlink is small enough to miss, yet it changed reading from a line into a landscape.

Türkçe

Aynı kart, başka bir dilde.

Web bağlantısı, bir belgeyi başka bir belgeye açar; okumayı seçilen yollardan oluşan bir ağa dönüştürür.

Basılı metinde dipnot ve kaynak zaten vardı; web bu sıçramayı anlık hâle getirdi. Altı çizili tek bir ifade okuru belgeden arşive, iddiadan kaynağa, bir zihinden başka bir zihne taşıyabilir. Bağlantı fark edilmeyecek kadar küçüktür; ama okumayı düz bir çizgiden manzaraya çevirdi.

Source trail

Read beyond the card.

CERN describes the Web as created by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN for automated information-sharing; the restored first website describes the World Wide Web as a hypermedia information-retrieval initiative built through linked documents. Sources: https://home.cern/science/computing/the-birth-of-the-web/short-history-web/ ; https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html ; audited 2026-07-07.

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