Stell' Dir vor, Du wirst in 2008 verhaftet und kommst erst 6 Jahre später wieder mit 'dem Web' in Berührung.

People used to carefully read my posts and leave lots of relevant comments, and even many of those who strongly disagreed with me still came to read. Other blogs linked to mine to discuss what I was saying. I felt like a king. […]
The hyperlink was my currency six years ago. Stemming from the idea of the hypertext, the hyperlink provided a diversity and decentralisation that the real world lacked. The hyperlink represented the open, interconnected spirit of the world wide web — a vision that started with its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee. The hyperlink was a way to abandon centralization — all the links, lines and hierarchies — and replace them with something more distributed, a system of nodes and networks.
Blogs gave form to that spirit of decentralization […]
Since I got out of jail, though, I’ve realized how much the hyperlink has been devalued, almost made obsolete.
Hossein Derakhshan on medium.com