Other users may see the user in motion appearing in, and disappearing from their neighborhood. Locations and Paths Web pages are locations of the virtual world. These virtual locations correspond to places in the real world like rooms, street corners, and stores. People are moving between virtual locations via hypertext references. On the Web links are only used as interconnections.
Locations can be far apart in the virtual world even if they are linked with a hypertext reference.
On the other hand 0-distance combines linked documents to a single virtual one. The distance-attribute defaults to 1 if absent. Links are treated as symmetric to allow for symmetric visibility. The virtual world contains more than just locations and links. Persons and communication exist within the space created by the Web.