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A hypertext is a text that is organized like a network. Parts of the text reference other text massages 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.

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  • Sistema hipertextual

    Documents that are connected by hyperlinks.

  • Vannevar Bush portrait

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

  • Ted Nelson cropped

    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.

  • HypertextEditingSystemConsoleBrownUniv1969

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

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