In essence, a hyperlink is two interfaces contained inside each other, despite their existence in two separate locations. A hyperlink brings the two pages closer together until they are a single, superimposed entity.
Two mirrors face each other, becoming infinitely closer until they identically reflect the light hitting them. If a particle were between these two mirrors, it would exist as its physical self but also as its two reflections– in three states at once. Here, we have an analog for the hyperlink and two website nodes and the anatomy of a wormhole.
In a wormhole, spacetime is folded in half, with a shorter pathway being drawn between two points– separate places and timelines– so you can jump between. The image often used to describe this process is a crumpled up piece of paper. A flat piece of paper represents the 2D fabric of spacetime. Each timeline and location exists at a point on this paper. If you crumple the 2D paper into a ball, elevating it into a 3D space, two points that were once far away on the plane can touch. A connection is formed between them in a higher dimension that wasn’t possible on a 2D plane.
Though wormholes are purely speculative, their collapsing of physical space is an echo of the hyperlink. The internet is literally called the world wide web, but webs are flat. If the internet is truly a web, hyperlinks would be constrained to a one dimensional pathway on a 2D plane. Instead, hyperlinks are wormholes: an interface containing two far away places, and the internet is that crumpled up spacetime.