Hypertext
noun
A way to link and view information on the computer where clicking or tapping a piece of text or image can take you to a new document or a different part of the existing document.
When browsing the internet, you use hypertext to navigate between web pages.
Often appears as...
- hypertext link
- hypertext document
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A way to link and view information on the computer where clicking or tapping a piece of text or image can take you to a new document or a different part of the existing document.
When browsing the internet, you use hypertext to navigate between web pages.
Often appears as...
- hypertext link
- hypertext document
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Interactive Text
Hypertext allows users to interact with digital text to access more information.
Clicking on the hypertext 'Read more' expanded the article.
Pro Tip 2/3Web Navigation
Hypertext is fundamental in web navigation, connecting web pages via clickable links.
I used the hypertext 'Next Chapter' to continue reading the online book.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Plain Text
Hypertext is different from plain text because it contains links to other texts or documents.
The word 'homepage' was hypertext, contrasting the rest of the plain text.
Pro Tip 1/3Interactive Text
Hypertext allows users to interact with digital text to access more information.
Clicking on the hypertext 'Read more' expanded the article.
Pro Tip 2/3Web Navigation
Hypertext is fundamental in web navigation, connecting web pages via clickable links.
I used the hypertext 'Next Chapter' to continue reading the online book.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Plain Text
Hypertext is different from plain text because it contains links to other texts or documents.
The word 'homepage' was hypertext, contrasting the rest of the plain text.
Pro Tip 1/3Interactive Text
Hypertext allows users to interact with digital text to access more information.
Clicking on the hypertext 'Read more' expanded the article.
Pro Tip 2/3Web Navigation
Hypertext is fundamental in web navigation, connecting web pages via clickable links.
I used the hypertext 'Next Chapter' to continue reading the online book.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Plain Text
Hypertext is different from plain text because it contains links to other texts or documents.
The word 'homepage' was hypertext, contrasting the rest of the plain text.
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The day I turned down...
were able to do over networks we developed the system so it had a markup language based on HTML we call the HTML hypertext markup language and the system was capable of doing very very large documentation systems over computer networks so I do this system to a trade
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Tim Berners-Lee: The...
I want to ask your help in a new reframing. So going back to 1989, I wrote a memo suggesting the global hypertext system. Nobody really did anything with it, pretty much.
Video examples
The day I turned down...
were able to do over networks we developed the system so it had a markup language based on HTML we call the HTML hypertext markup language and the system was capable of doing very very large documentation systems over computer networks so I do this system to a trade
Video examples
Tim Berners-Lee: The...
I want to ask your help in a new reframing. So going back to 1989, I wrote a memo suggesting the global hypertext system. Nobody really did anything with it, pretty much.
Example 1 of 2
Quote examples
Douglas Rushkoff
American Journalist
While we may blame the Internet for the ease with which conspiracy theories proliferate, the net is really much more culpable for the way it connects everything to almost everything else. The hypertext link, as we used to call it, allows any fact or idea to become intimately connected with any other.
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Robert Cailliau
Belgian Scientist
The Web is actually a coming together of three technologies, if you like: the hypertext, the personal computer, and the network. So, the network we had, and the personal computers were there, but people didn't use them, because they didn't know what to use them for, except maybe for a few games.
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Robert Cailliau
Belgian Scientist
What is hypertext? It is a method of giving a text more depth, structuring it, and letting the computer help you explore it. Links, like we know today - you see some blue underlined word and you click on it and it takes you somewhere else. That's the simplest definition of hypertext.
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Ted Nelson
American Author
So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.
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Thomas Watson, Jr.
American Businessman
The serendipitous nature of hypertext links is just brilliant for a curious mind. I love it.
Quote examples
Douglas Rushkoff
American Journalist
While we may blame the Internet for the ease with which conspiracy theories proliferate, the net is really much more culpable for the way it connects everything to almost everything else. The hypertext link, as we used to call it, allows any fact or idea to become intimately connected with any other.
Quote examples
Robert Cailliau
Belgian Scientist
The Web is actually a coming together of three technologies, if you like: the hypertext, the personal computer, and the network. So, the network we had, and the personal computers were there, but people didn't use them, because they didn't know what to use them for, except maybe for a few games.
Quote examples
Robert Cailliau
Belgian Scientist
What is hypertext? It is a method of giving a text more depth, structuring it, and letting the computer help you explore it. Links, like we know today - you see some blue underlined word and you click on it and it takes you somewhere else. That's the simplest definition of hypertext.
Quote examples
Ted Nelson
American Author
So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.
Quote examples
Thomas Watson, Jr.
American Businessman
The serendipitous nature of hypertext links is just brilliant for a curious mind. I love it.
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