I find that hard to understand.
What server have you reached? Many sites are designed to be hosted by many servers at the same time.
Sites hosted on Amazon are moved around depending on load and your location.
Often you'll get part of the site from server X other bits from server Y.. images and css from an asset server and api data from one of many app servers.
You are correct. I just don't think that's a reasonable state of affairs. If that was part of a p2p model (eg. torrent/IPFS) it could be considered a reasonable tradeoff to allow for more eco-friendly (shorter routes, no need for high-powered servers) retrieval scheme.
Hyperlinks are the foundation of the web. However, when we started loading resources (eg. images) from third parties due to high bandwidth/disk cost, we opened a Pandora's box which i believe does more harm than good.
