The adoption and popularisation 'overnight' of globally-linked pages and fragments can be seen as evidence of the predisposition of text to what the hypertext community calls 'advanced' or 'late' literacy; not, that is, a function of hypertextual advances. Meanwhile, every net-person and artist takes writing spaces and (click-)linking for granted. They are here today and accessible to use, regardless of their pedigree. But they are here and accessible, primarily, I argue, because the digital aspects of textuality were and are already familiar, introduced by the problematic dynamics of writing itself.