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Meaning that the main viable use case for them now is intra-site navigation, i.e. the menu bar at the top of the page.

So the observation here is that Tim Berners Lee's original vision was all these documents that would be linking to each other, across different hosts. But today's websites are mostly silos that only link inwards. Have I got that right?

In the paar online text would be filled with more links and references. Wikipedia is still like that.

The normal use case are navigation, and call to action.

The web has become a kiosk with virtual magazines screaming for attention Commented with an application distribution platform (html/js)

We used to have applications and protocols. Now we have something similar to a mainframe, but the client app is distributed over and over again.

Forum? NNTP

Chat? IRC

Dole transfer? FTP

Status updates? Finger

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