{"id":1615,"date":"2003-08-14T18:18:05","date_gmt":"2003-08-15T08:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/15\/go-to-referrer-bookmarklet\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T14:00:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T22:00:24","slug":"go-to-referrer-bookmarklet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/14\/go-to-referrer-bookmarklet\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;go to referrer&#039; bookmarklet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13765,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/simon.incutio.com\\\/archive\\\/2003\\\/08\\\/13\\\/bloggingTechnique&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20201024232910\\\/http:\\\/\\\/simon.incutio.com\\\/archive\\\/2003\\\/08\\\/13\\\/bloggingTechnique&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 13:27:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 12:41:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 12:41:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13766,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/feedster.com\\\/blog&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260203100056\\\/http:\\\/\\\/feedster.com\\\/blog\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 13:27:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 12:41:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 12:41:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I just stumbled across this <a href=\"http:\/\/simon.incutio.com\/archive\/2003\/08\/13\/bloggingTechnique\" title=\"Blogging Technique\">wonderful little trick<\/a>, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/feedster.com\/blog\/\" title=\"Feedster Blog\">Scott<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ever opened up a link in a new tab or a new window, then left it alone for a while? Come back to it in a couple hours, figure it&#8217;s interesting enough to blog about, then realize that you can&#8217;t remember just whose site pointed you to the link? It&#8217;s a minor annoyance, if you try to link back to your sources.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a bookmarklet to solve the problem: <a href=\"if(!document.referrer)%20%7B%20alert('No%20referrer!');%20%7D%20else%20%7B%20document.location%20=%20document.referrer;%20%7D%20void%200\" title=\"go to referrer\">go to referrer<\/a>. Drag that into your bookmarks, and choosing it will snap you back to whatever page sent you to the link, even in new tabs or windows. Very handy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever opened up a link in a new tab or a new window, then left it alone for a while? Come back to it in a couple hours, figure it&#8217;s interesting enough to blog about, then realize that you can&#8217;t remember just whose site pointed you to the link? It&#8217;s a minor annoyance, if you try to link back to your sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2038],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}