hypertext

Noun

1. Digital text in which the reader may navigate related information through embedded hyperlinks.
   • We do not read hypertext the same way we read a novel, and browsing the Web is a different experience from reading a book or newspaper. - 2009, Christian Vandendorpe, Phyllis Aronoff, and Howard Scott (Phyllis Aronoff,...
   • Further, hypertext systems, because of their ease of construction, are very rich in text, graphics and visual illustrations. - 1999, Ray McAleese, Hypertext: Theory into Practice, Intellect Books, →ISBN, page 2:
   • 1995, Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu", WIRED Did Nelson realize at the time that he had met Xanadu's second parent? Probably not. The inventor scattered his ideas as widely as possible, with little care about where...
2. A hypertext document.
   • A hypertext system, then, is a memex-like device for creating and manipulating hypertexts, both for on-line browsing, and for reducing selected portions of such texts to . . - 1969, S. Carmody, W. Gross, T. Nelson, D....