What is "Hypertext"?

What is "Hypertext"?

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Hypertext was really the fundamental start of web pages and web languages. Hypertext is this kind of texting, this scripting that allows documents and different parts of different documents to be linked to each other. Hypertext is what allows your experience of browsing the web to be three dimensional, because our thoughts when they proceed in an organic way, are not necessarily linear. We do not necessarily move from page one to page two, sometimes we want to jump into the middle of the book. And as you begin to research and as you begin to surf through different content on the internet, you'll find that it can be a three dimensional experience as you jump from one blue linked item, from one piece of hypertext, to another, you can jump from subject to subject to subject and you can start out by researching The Beatles and end up researching African dung beetles.