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)