The Web Page That Cannot Exist

Piranesi’s Carceri Plate VII – The Drawbridge, 1745, reworked 1761, via Wikipedia

I discovered by an accidental click that the web page for the 2019 annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (January 3–6, in New York) contains a hyperlink to itself (it’s in the paragraph about the Pop-Up Mentoring scheme). This almost certainly happened through a copy-and-paste error. It is not good web practice: Clicking on a self-link simply takes you to right where you are already, so it only wastes...