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Exciting technical discovery

.. but definitely nerdy lol

It would be great when providing an online primary source if you could link directly to the relevant phrase/sentence within a long external page. Well it seems you CAN!

Syntax

[URL]#:~:text=[RELEVANT%20PHRASE]

So instead of 

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25852/25852-h/25852-h.htm  > then telling people to scroll down 300 paragraphs and you will find relevant section. You can do this…

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25852/25852-h/25852-h.htm#:~:text=Lowestoft

Or

If you are interested in the first steps to introducing African girls to Quantum computing…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y80n9jdj5o#:~:text=quantum%20road%20show

I await your feedback as to what stage you glazed over, but feel this has real potential!

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