hypertext
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AI overview
Hypertext is a system of documents or information connected together through clickable links that let you jump from one piece of content to another. It matters because it's the underlying technology that makes the web work, allowing you to navigate between related information easily rather than reading everything in a fixed order.
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- Etymology
- Types and uses of hypertext
- History
- Implementations
- Academic conferences
- Hypertext fiction
- Forms
- See also
- References
- Documentary film
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
- Hypertext conferences
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thumb|alt=Vannevar Bush.|Engineer Vannevar Bush wrote "[[As We May Think" in July 1945 in which he described the Memex, a theoretical proto-hypertext device which in turn helped inspire the subsequent invention of hypertext.]]