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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