The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Digital Research Initiative

Hypertext and Hypermedia Theory:
What is hypertext?

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Hypertext is "a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in [such] a complex way that it could not be conveniently represented on paper" (Ted Nelson)

The principle of hypertext is to associate information through "links" into a coherent organization.




 

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