Breaking the Chronological Order

<blockquote cite="https://stackingthebricks.com/how-blogs-broke-the-web/" class="quoteback" darkmode="" data-author="@stackingbricks" data-title="How%20the%20Blog%20Broke%20the%20Web"> And the damn reverse chronology bias — <em> once called into creation, it hungers eternally </em> — sought its next victim. Myspace. Facebook. Twitter. Instagram. Pinterest, of all things. <footer> @stackingbricks <cite> <a href="https://stackingthebricks.com/how-blogs-broke-the-web/"> https://stackingthebricks.com/how-blogs-broke-the-web/ </a> </cite> </footer> </blockquote> <script note="" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/Blogger-Peer-Review/quotebacks@1/quoteback.js"> </script> <p> A common feature of blogging was the idea of having articles displayed in <em> chronological order </em> . This may work for someone who does a real periodic log, but not for the majority of the people who like writing about what they know, about what they learn. Even technical articles about a programming language need to be updated once in a while, or follow up content must be properly linked. </p> <blockquote cite="https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden" class="quoteback" darkmode="" data-author="" data-title="%F0%9F%8C%B1%20My%20blog%20is%20a%20digital%20garden%2C%20not%20a%20blog"> <p class="css-yw8fqx e1tutuyt0"> Chronologically sorted pages of posts aren't how people actually use the internet. </p> <p class="css-yw8fqx e1tutuyt0"> For the most part we use search via Google to find stuff, which is free form and task oriented. You want something, you know what you want, you can string a few words together and hope to get lucky. </p> <footer> <cite> <a href="https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden"> https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden </a> </cite> </footer> </blockquote> <script note="" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/Blogger-Peer-Review/quotebacks@1/quoteback.js"> </script> <p> The first thing I did when building this website (see: <a class="wikilink" href="/how_i_built_this_website/"> how I built this website </a> ) was to remove any form of ordering, and focused solely on the navigation aspects. If someone reaches a page I wrote (either because I or someone else shared it, or because Google sent them), I want to give them the possibility to keep exploring the different aspects of what I think and write. That is why I also focused on making backlinks (see: <a class="wikilink" href="/backlinks_are_the_core_of_my_digital_garden/"> backlinks are the core of my digital garden </a> ) very visible, and there is a color distinction between internal links and external links. </p>