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A history of the A element ties concrete claims to working tech: the anchor starts life with name and href attributes, the Library of Babel is enumerated as 10^1,834,097 books, the ARPANET sends the first buggy message as "lo" on Oct 29, 1969, Engelbart demos NLS and the mouse on 9 Dec 1968, and the modern stack shows practical indie tooling—rel=me, IndieAuth, Micropub, Webmention, Bridgy—that actually enables two‑way identity and posting from personal sites.
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chapters (29)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:05Apophenia
- 16:20hypertext
- 18:32ARPA
- 20:45TCPIP
- 24:00CERN
- 24:44hypertext systems
- 25:33information mine
- 25:48World Wide Web
- 26:08www
- 27:37href
- 28:49link rot
- 29:32rel
- 30:42vote links
- 31:20PageRank
- 31:54XFN
- 33:19Linked Resources
- 34:16Nofollow
- 34:47Twoway linking
- 35:02Authentication
- 35:56MicroPub
- 36:21Indiewebcamp
- 37:34Bridge II
- 37:49Web Mention
- 38:06Indie Web
- 38:29Walled Gardens
- 39:07Garden of Forking Paths
- 40:03The Web
- 40:42A History Book
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