Word of the Day:
hypertext
What It Means
Digital text in which the reader may navigate related information through embedded hyperlinks.
A hypertext document.
Hypertext in Context
“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.”
Did You Know?
From hyper- + text; coined by American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist Ted Nelson in 1965.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hypertext (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the word and reformatted its meaning, examples and origin.
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