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by jon_dahl 4749 days ago
Quick answer: links. Hypertext. It's important enough to the original vision of this whole contraption to actually be the name.

While were reminiscing... In 1994, the web felt like technology. You typed in "http://" and it felt exotic. You were connecting to a server. Literally: _a_ server. You wondered what would happen if you hit the same address with gopher or (more likely) telnet.

As often as not, something would happen.