Metaphors We Web By

Maggie Appleton gets into what is perhaps the foremost metaphor the web is founded on: paper.

Paper documents were the original metaphor for the web. […] The page you’re reading this on still mimics paper. We still call it

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Created 3y | Feb 1, 2022, 1:20:24 AM


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