A Short History of Bi-Directional Links

Seventy years ago we dreamed up links that would allow us to create two-way, contextual conversations. Why don't we use them on the web?

Table of Contents Table of Contents With the recent rise of Roam Research https://roamresearch.com/ , the idea of bi-directional linking is having a bit of a moment. We’re all very used to the mono-directional link the World Wide Web is built around. They act as one-way pointers we follow in a linear sequence. While we can link to any site, the destination page hasn’t a clue we’ve done so. We set up all these single-direction paths, trying to signal relevance and context, only to have the other side completely ignore our efforts. Our monolinks are trying to establish relationships in vain. We’

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