A common dichotomy when talking about content structure.
The early internet was mostly ordered according to subject matter, following topics with hyperlinks, leading to a topological structure. People added to their personal website, mostly oriented around interests or other topics. Stock and Flow benefits from this structure, Digital Garden are a modern form of this.
Later on, blogging and social media led to a predominance of chronological organization. This has deeply influenced the modern web which is almost always organized in Stock and Flow. Amy Hoy lamented this transition in How the blog broke the web. Maggie Appleton (A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden) pointed to the quasi economic thinking underlying this
we’ve moved away from casual live journal entries and formalised our writing into articles and essays. These are carefully crafted, edited, revised, and published with a timestamp. When it’s done, it’s done. We act like tiny magazines, sending our writing off to the printer. We have all been trained to behave like tiny, performative corporations when it comes to presenting ourselves in digital space. Blogging evolved in the Premium Mediocre culture of Millenialism as a way to Promote Your Personal Brand™ and market your SEO-optimized Content.
This is very similar to Stream vs Garden and Stock and Flow.