The Venerable Hyperlink

The personal computer should work like the Internet: lots of independent programs passing around messages. Similarly, I wish the interfaces on the OS were like the World Wide Web: riddled with tons of links. Everything has a URL or unique identifier, and anything can link to anything else. The hyperlink fundamentally changed how we can think about, organize, and navigate lots of information, text, and media. It’s a shame we don’t get to use it more within our usual personal computing use cases on the modern OS!