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Before the Web was ubiquitous, what are now commonly known as ‘hyperlinks’ were then commonly called ‘hot links(or hot spots and hot words), especially in ‘CD-ROM era’ software such as HyperCard and Macromedia Director and in games such as Myst.

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The article at Inline link/Inline linking currently describes something (synonymous with 'bandwidth theft') less like a hyperlink and more like 'deep linking' directly to images or other resources hosted elsewhere (an increasingly rare practice in 2024 due to technical security-focused restrictions in web browsers against displaying 'cross-domain content').

- Jim Grisham (talk) 20:49, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]