What is this technique?

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I usually try to learn techniques I have not used before to help make my job easier. Kind of like when I started using CSS I started to look into it now use it with everything.<br />
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I recently saw a webpage where the links looked like this:<br />
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URL:<br />
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.website.com/?page=category-a">http://www.website.com/?page=category-a</a><!-- m --><br />
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.website.com/?page=contact">http://www.website.com/?page=contact</a><!-- m --><br />
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and the code looked like:<br />
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(a href=http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/archive/index.php/"/?page=category-a")page(/a)<br />
(a href=http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/archive/index.php/"/?page=contact")page(/a)<br />
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What is this technique called so I can research it and is it of any importance as far as making anything easier, better, etc?<br />
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Thanks for the help!<!--content-->i dunno<!--content-->go to w3c.org and read about the html tag<br />
<base/><br />
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you will find your answers..<!--content-->I must be missing it there.<!--content-->Thats quite allright,here you go<br />
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<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#edef-BASE">http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#edef-BASE</a><!-- m --><!--content-->