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Definitions[]

General[]

A link is "[s] behavioral, physical, or functional relationship between nodes in a system."[1]

Internet[]

A link is commonly used on the Internet to provide navigation, reference, and depth where published text cannot. Typically the linked text is blue or underlined when displayed, and when selected by the user, the referenced document is automatically displayed, wherever in the world it actually is stored.

There are two types of links on the Internethyperlinks and inline links.

Telecommunications[]

A link is a connection between two network devices or nodes.

Overview (Internet)[]

"Links, for example, can be used to lead from overview documents to more detailed documents, from tables of contents to particular pages, but also as cross-references, footnotes, and new forms of information structure. A link may also take the user from the original website to another website on another computer connected to the Internet. These links from one computer to another, from one document to another across the Internet, are what unify the Web into a single body of knowledge, and what makes the Web unique. The Web was designed with a maximum target time to follow a link of one tenth of a second."[2]

References[]

  1. Air Force Supplement to the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, at 46.
  2. American Civil Liberties Union v. Reno, 929 F. Supp. 824, 836 (E.D. Pa. 1996) (full-text), aff'd, Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 U.S. 844 (1997) (full-text).

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