Just tell me what's there.

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Today it's a total anachronism, but only a couple of years back it was rather common to find newspaper or magazine articles about web sites, only to discover that those articles didn't contain the addresses of the sites under review. It was less a case of "you'll have to take our word for it", than a case of the web still being something so far out of the mainstream that it only got written about, described, from a distance. Nobody was really expected to actually check out those strange entities for themselves. That sort of thing belongs, of course, to an entire other era. Today television commercials flash the URL of the item being advertised, as though we're just waiting with out mice in hand to click over to the site to get more advertising instead of waiting impatiently for the program to continue. But anachronistic or not, a glimpse into that earlier era shows us that it is possible to write about the web (and internet culture in general) without linking. On the other hand, it completely misses the point.

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