The
Back button. I fear it. I fear the little attendant menu, now available in more recent browsers, that allows me to skip back to an
arbitrary page in my
surfing history.
This becomes a problem while noding, because sometimes I'll go to a node, where there are a lot of soft links listed just below, and that's fine; but sometimes there will only be, like two. Then, it feels like the path ahead has grown narrow and unclear, like a dark tunnel. I have to carefully consider between my dwindling options, trying to predict which will have more related nodes attached. I get really sweaty when I have to endure a whole series of such nodes. I can't count on hard links within the text of the node, because they may not actually be there. No related nodes at all! Then, I get to a really healthy one with, jeez dozens of related nodes! What a relief! I can breathe easy.
This happens at the Jargon File website, too.
I don't fear the Forward button because it always remains faded. Inaccessable and benign.
There should be another classification for nodes. Along with thing and idea and all, there should also be fear.