History of Hyperlink (Types) on the Web

We may take it for granted that we use hyperlinks for a number of distinct purposes in our web sites: for structural navigation, for embedding media, for object download, and in-text, for both navigation and non-essential, elaborative reference to relevant internal or external web pages. It appears that there is no historical narrative of hyperlink types on the web yet exists, so I hope to collect examples that show two of the more nuanced types of hyperlinks, in-text navigation versus in-text reference. My only current working theory is that though in-text reference links have been around since Tim Bernard-Lee's WorldWideWeb project, they did not really boom until the advent of the blog in the late 90s. To this end, this group should collect web sites that: (1) discuss the history of hyperlinking on the web (2) explain hyperlink typology (3) show historical (pre-2001) examples of in-text/contextual hyperlinks that are contain (a) referential (i.e. link to relevant elaborative or definitive information) (b) navigational