Talk:Hot link

'Hot words', 'hot spots', 'hot links', 'hyperlinks', 'deep links', and related terms have had various meanings over time
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)