Hypertext

A hypertext is a text that is organized like a network. Parts of the text reference other text messages or texts which can directly be accessed. The parts that provide the reference are known as hyperlinks. An example of a hypertext is the HTML standard used in the World Wide Web. Wikis also use hypertext.

Hypertext Media

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  Visual abstraction of several documents being connected by hyperlinks

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  Engineer Vannevar Bush wrote "As We May Think" in July of 1945 in which he described the Memex, a theoretical proto-hypertext device which in turn helped inspire the subsequent invention of hypertext.

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  Douglas Engelbart in 2009, at the 40th anniversary celebrations of "The Mother of All Demos" in San Francisco, a 90-minute 1968 presentation of the NLS computer system which was a combination of hardware and software that demonstrated many hypertext ideas

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  Ted Nelson gives a presentation on Project Xanadu, a theoretical hypertext model conceived in the 1960s whose first and incomplete implementation was first published in 1998.

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  Hypertext Editing System (HES) IBM 2250 Display console – Brown University 1969

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  A screenshot from a reading of Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl, where windows layer on top of each other