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hypermedia

noun

  1. extension of the term hypertext, nonlinear medium of information that includes graphics, audio, video, plain text and hyperlinks
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From hyper- + media, coined by American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist Ted Nelson in 1965.

  1. The use of text, data, graphics, audio and video as elements of an extended hypertext system in which all elements are linked so that the user can move among them at will.

    “From the `70s onwards, Muffler, de Sola Pool and other gurus attempted to prove that the advent of hypermedia would paradoxically involve a return to the economic liberalism of the past.”