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The trail you leave so future-you can find the way back.
means A small piece of information, a link, or a navigational marker left behind to show the path taken through a system, story, or set of decisions.
from Lifted straight from the fairy tale 'Hansel and Gretel,' where the children drop crumbs of bread through the forest to mark their trail home — a plan famously undone when birds eat the evidence. The word moved from folklore into tech and design (as in 'breadcrumb navigation,' those little trails of links at the top of a webpage: Home > Category > You Are Here) sometime in the late 20th century, as interface designers reached for a homely image to describe digital wayfinding.
- origin
- named after Hansel and Gretel's forest trick
- ui sense
- shows your path, not your destination
- kitchen sense
- stale bread's second career, crispier and humbler
- seo trick
- google loves breadcrumbs more than you do