Hypertext

thumb|An example of a hyperlink as commonly seen in a web browser, with a [[computer mouse pointer hovering above it]] thumb|Visual abstraction of several documents being connected by hyperlinks

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process of creating, sharing, using and managing the knowledge and information of an organization

Hypermedia, an extension of hypertext, is a nonlinear medium of information that includes graphics, audio, video, plain text and hyperlinks. This designation contrasts with the broader term multimedia, which may include non-interactive linear presentations as well as hypermedia. The term was first used in a 1965 article written by Ted Nelson. Hypermedia is a type of multimedia that features interactive elements, such as hypertext, buttons, or interactive images and videos, allowing users to navigate and engage with content in a non-linear manner.

From the point of view of a given web resource (referent), a backlink is a regular hyperlink on another web resource (the referrer) that points to the referent. A web resource may be (for example) a website, web page, or web directory.

right|frame|In this example, the data of file B is transcluded into the document A.

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efforts to increase the number of high-quality links pointing to a website

HyperCard is a software application and development kit for Apple Macintosh and Apple IIGS computers. It is among the first successful hypermedia systems predating the World Wide Web.

first hypertext project

visible and clickable text in an HTML hyperlink

genre of electronic literature, characterized by the use of hypertext links

influential 1945 essay anticipating information society

internet protocol

use of a linked object on one site by a web page belonging to a second site

British computer scientist (1952-)

XML Linking Language, or XLink, is an XML markup language and W3C specification that provides methods for creating internal and external links within XML documents, and associating metadata with those links.

ENQUIRE was a software project written in 1980 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, which was the predecessor to the World Wide Web. It was a simple hypertext program that had some of the same ideas as the Web and the Semantic Web but was different in several important ways.

Texinfo is a typesetting syntax used for generating documentation in both on-line and printed form (creating filetypes as , , , etc., and a specific hypertext format, ) with a single source file. It is implemented by a computer program released as free software of the same name, created and made available by the GNU Project from the Free Software Foundation.

open source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories

1960s computer collaboration system

string of characters that refers to a resource that is subordinate to another, primary resource; introduced by a hash (#) after the URI of the primary resource

FrameNet is a group of online lexical databases based upon the theory of meaning known as Frame semantics, developed by linguist Charles J. Fillmore. The project's fundamental notion is simple: most words' meanings may be best understood in terms of a semantic frame, which is a description of a certain kind of event, connection, or item and its actors.

term used within the Internet-based file sharing community to describe a hyperlink that points to a location within the Internet where the user can download a file

hypertext system

AmigaGuide is a hypertext document file format designed for the Amiga. It was developed in the early 1990s and released to the market in 1992. Files are stored in ASCII so it is possible to read and edit a file without the need for special software.