Hypertext

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
hypertext
    n 1: machine-readable text that is not sequential but is
         organized so that related items of information are
         connected; "Let me introduce the word hypertext to mean a
         body of written or pictorial material interconnected in
         such a complex way that it could not conveniently be
         presented or represented on paper"--Ted Nelson
from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
hypertext
hypermedia

   <hypertext> A term coined by Ted Nelson around 1965 for a
   collection of documents (or "nodes") containing
   cross-references or "links" which, with the aid of an
   interactive {browser} program, allow the reader to move easily
   from one document to another.

   The extension of hypertext to include other media - {sound},
   {graphics}, and {video} - has been termed "{hypermedia}", but
   is usually just called "hypertext", especially since the
   advent of the {World-Wide Web} and {HTML}.

   (2000-09-10)
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