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VeryBadKitteh
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I call this trope \\\"Bluelinking\\\". It usually goes like this:
1) You encounter a strange and interesting word in real life and look it up on Wikipedia.
2) On reading the article, you encounter more strange and interesting words linked in bright blue.
3) You dutifully click on them in new tabs.
4) On reading the articles (there are now several open in several windows), you encounter more stranger and interesting words in bright blue.
5) You dutifully click on them again in new tabs.
6) And so on and so forth.
Thus even if you originally went to Wikipedia to learn more about pit vipers, after a few hours passing by unnoticed, you\\\'ll find yourself immersed in reading about ancient pottery decorations among the Jomon people of prehistoric Japan, the mating habits of springtails, the Boer war, and lactase persistence in human evolution.
Interestingly enough, xkcd also gives a name for this phenomenon, ironically for TVTropes, instead of Wikipedia. It calls it \\\"tab explosion\\\".
1) You encounter a strange and interesting word in real life and look it up on Wikipedia.
2) On reading the article, you encounter more strange and interesting words linked in bright blue.
3) You dutifully click on them in new tabs.
4) On reading the articles (there are now several open in several windows), you encounter more stranger and interesting words in bright blue.
5) You dutifully click on them again in new tabs.
6) And so on and so forth.
Thus even if you originally went to Wikipedia to learn more about pit vipers, after a few hours passing by unnoticed, you\\\'ll find yourself immersed in reading about ancient pottery decorations among the Jomon people of prehistoric Japan, the mating habits of springtails, the Boer war, and lactase persistence in human evolution.
Interestingly enough, xkcd also gives a name for this phenomenon, ironically for TVTropes, instead of Wikipedia. It calls it \\\"tab explosion\\\".
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I call this trope \\\"Bluelinking\\\". It usually goes like this:
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I call this trope \
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1) You encounter a strange and interesting word in real life and look it up on Wikipedia.
2) On reading the article, you encounter more strange and interesting words linked in bright blue.
3) You dutifully click on them in new tabs.
4) On reading the articles (there are now several open in several windows), you encounter more stranger and interesting words in bright blue.
5) You dutifully click on them again in new tabs.
6) And so on and so forth.
Thus even if you originally went to Wikipedia to learn more about pit vipers, after a few hours passing by unnoticed, you\\\'ll find yourself immersed in reading about ancient pottery decorations among the Jomon people of prehistoric Japan, the mating habits of springtails, the Boer war, and lactase persistence in human evolution.
Interestingly enough, xkcd DOES have a word for this, though not exclusive to Wikipedia. It calls it \\\"tab explosion\\\"
2) On reading the article, you encounter more strange and interesting words linked in bright blue.
3) You dutifully click on them in new tabs.
4) On reading the articles (there are now several open in several windows), you encounter more stranger and interesting words in bright blue.
5) You dutifully click on them again in new tabs.
6) And so on and so forth.
Thus even if you originally went to Wikipedia to learn more about pit vipers, after a few hours passing by unnoticed, you\\\'ll find yourself immersed in reading about ancient pottery decorations among the Jomon people of prehistoric Japan, the mating habits of springtails, the Boer war, and lactase persistence in human evolution.
Interestingly enough, xkcd DOES have a word for this, though not exclusive to Wikipedia. It calls it \\\"tab explosion\\\"
