As We May Link

An ode to ​“the alpha and the omega” of the web, the humble and powerful hyperlink. By Jeremy Keith for the third issue of The Manual.

We designers often get worked up about the information architecture of our own websites and apps (which I refrain from calling silos, although they often tend towards that) and forget about the information architecture of the web itself. This essay provides an alternate, historical perspective of organising the world’s information.