So, What Does "HREF" Stand For, Anyway?
Today it occurred to me that, after a little over ten years of basic fluency in HTML, I have absolutely no idea why the href attribute is named “href”. Why not “url”, “link”, or even just “ref”?
HyperText.m - source to TimBL's first implementation of hypertext (Sept. 25, 1990)
From the comments: “HyperText is like Text, but includes links to and from other hypertexts.”