Linking Backlinks and Knowledge Graphs

Backlinks were present for a long time and things like Wikipedia but the modern linking backlinking trend really came with what are now usually called knowledge graph. Rome kicked that whole thing off notion that always had linking but they added backlinks I think somewhat in reaction to the overnight success of Rome then you have all these kind of Rome descended products like obsidian log-seq even classic kind of text editor note tools like I a writer are getting into that now.