My destinations are sites, homes. The Web is a landscape through which I journey. Most Web sites present themselves as some type of document, laid out like documents, using document conventions such as titles, headers, articles and multiple columns. It's as if we've entered a world in which the buildings are documents, and the documents have taken on some of the architectural properties of physical buildings. For example, normal documents we carry around, store, file.
Document become destinations.
And while real documents are published in multiple identical copies, on the Web there's only one authentic document, as public as a skyscraper in a city skyline. The intersection of the metaphors of place and documents is not accidental. But there is no accidental geography in cyberspace. And in our culture, documents are the way in which meaning is made public and given some persistence. So it's natural that documents have become the nodes of organization on the Web.