hypertext - technical definition

Text prepared and published in such a way that it is linked together in a non-sequential web of associations that allows the user to navigate through related topics, from one document to another.The author embeds hyperlinks in the text that the user can simply click on to view the related document associated with the link. The World Wide Web (WWW) is a global hypertext system of information residing on servers linked across the public Internet. If this dictionary were in electronic format with hypertext, you could simply click on just about any hyperlinked word (italicized in print) and instantly view the definition of that word, without having to flip pages to find it. Also, the last sentence in this paragraph would disappear, saving ink and paper in the process.The terms hypertext and hypermedia are attributed to Ted Nelson, who, along with Douglas Englebart, developed the Hypertext Editing System in 1968. See also HTML, hyperlink, Internet, server, text, and WWW.