Hyperlinks can be annoying

This is a quote from Mark Bacon (no relation)’s blog which on the face of it sounds like heresy. I mean, what is t’internet all about if not the absolute delight of hopping straight to a reference and reading it on the spot?

Compare and contrast the days when we followed a footnote which led to a bibliography which might then necessitate hunting in library catalogues and journal holdings lists to dig up an article which might take ages to arrive and when it did probably wasn’t half as importan...