Before blogs and UX-as-a-discipline and every-ecommerce-site-looks-like-a-Shopify-template, websites encouraged you to explore. They’d have subpages you could only find by navigating deeper into a primary one.

They were filled with easter eggs and whimsy and hidden paths to explore.

This is one of the biggest appeals of digital gardening to me. It encourages you to explore a bit and find hidden paths.