The pleasure of following a link
The World Wide Web grew around connected documents and shared standards. W3C’s history describes its role in developing open web standards with an international community.
A portal can make that original pleasure easier to find: a useful starting point, then a link to somewhere you did not know existed. It does not need to own every destination to be helpful.
Take a different route
Our challenge for your next coffee break: visit one digital collection, one project made by an individual, and one primary source behind a story you read. Notice how the experience changes when you choose the next step.
This is an editorial suggestion, not a claim that feeds are disappearing. Discovery can include both familiar platforms and the smaller corners of the web. itslit is being built to give those corners a little more room.
