Link

A link, also referred to as a  hyperlink, is the highlighted text or images (such as a logo or graphic) that, when selected by the user, permit the user to view another Web page or document. Typically the linked text is blue or underlined when displayed, and when selected by the user, the referenced document is automatically displayed, wherever in the world it actually is stored.

Links, for example, can be used to lead from overview documents to more detailed documents, from tables of contents to particular pages, but also as cross-references, footnotes, and new forms of information structure. A link may also take the user from the original website to another website on another computer connected to the Internet. These links from one computer to another, from one document to another across the Internet, are what unify the Web into a single body of knowledge, and what makes the Web unique. The Web was designed with a maximum target time to follow a link of one tenth of a second.