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Page believed that this principle could also work with web pages. But getting the right data would be difficult. Web pages made their outgoing links transparent: built into the code were easily identifiable markers for the destinations you could travel to with a mouse click from that page.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
The link and the tag may be two of the most important inventions of the last 50 years.
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Having all this information available at my fingerprints does more than help me find my notes faster. Yes, when I'm trying to track down an article I wrote many years ago, it's now much easier to retrieve. But the qualitative change lies elsewhere: in finding documents I've forgotten about altogether, documents that I didn't know I was looking for.