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And bi-directional links by way of Ted Nelson

Bi-directional links are a non-starter from the perspective of having an autonomous distributed system.

Think about it this way, would you be happy if any random scammer could place links into your web page, well, with bidirectional links, now they can.

Certainly, I wouldn't want spammers to be able to insert links into my text. However, if there was an option in my browser to see who had linked to the content, sorted by some reasonable measure, such as page-rank, don't you think that would be a good thing for the web?

The HTML way for that is HTTP Referer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer#:~:text=In%20HTTP...

Your server would need to log and report on those entries. Of course, for privacy and other reasons, this is probably not dependable any more.

My recollection is the original graphical browsers were all editors. I’m pretty sure for example ViolaWWW was an editor, and directly referenced HyperCard too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViolaWWW

Netscape had it for a long time.