hypertext

n : 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

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. See also {hypermedia}.

(1996-05-31)