The 27th column contains six links to additional, onsite pages. The date link for that same column contains five internal links, two additional links to onsite pages not part of that column, and six links to additional offsite information. I think that a case such as this definitely justifies the claim that the date links sometimes seemed to take on a life of their own.

Go to: Who cares when it was posted?, or
Go to: It's more than just words and links, you know, or
Go to: Trying to make some sense out of all this, or
Go to: An introduction to the extroduction, or
Go to: Web Essays - The evolution of a (personal?) medium