Webmention

W3C Recommendation (2017) for telling any URL that you have linked to it. The receiving site checks that the link really exists and can then show it, giving the Web's one-way links a way back.

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Part of threads Can readers write back? proposes; One-way or two-way links reopens

published by

• World Wide Web Consortium organization 1994 [src]

responds to

• World Wide Web project 1990 [src]
  Adds notification of incoming links to the Web's one-way links.

edited by

• Aaron Parecki person [src]

built upon by

• IndieWeb project 2011 [src]

Sources

• https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/