He referred to them as trails. Walden s Paths is a Web based implementation of the hypertext path mechanism.
Paths lay a meta structure over the Web.
The paths refer to and elucidate documents on the Web and hence can be termed as meta documents. Paths in Waldens Paths are an ordering of Web pages with associated annotations. The pages used can be from anywhere on the Internet and their ordering in the path is independent of any existing navigational structure. A Hypertext Path Mechanism , Proceedings of the ACM Hypertext 89 Conference, 1-26. As originally defined, the guided path provided the means for directing a reader s traversal along a path of components extracted from a set of documents.