Different forms of hypertextuality

An hyperlink is an element in an electronic document that links to another place in the same document or to an entirely different document. Typically, you click on the hyperlink to follow the link. Hyperlinks are the most essential ingredient of all hypertext systems, including the World Wide Web.

Hypertext is a special type of database system, invented by Ted Nelson in the 1960s, in which objects (text, pictures, music, programs, and so on) can be creatively linked to each other. When you select an object, you can see all the other objects that are linked to it.

You can move from one object to another even though they might have very different forms. For example, while reading a document about Mozart, you might click on the phrase Violin Concerto in A Major, which could display the written score or perhaps even invoke a recording of the concerto. Clicking on the name Mozart might cause various illustrations of Mozart to appear on the screen. The icons that you select to view associated objects are called Hypertext links or buttons.

Hypertext systems are particularly useful for organizing and browsing through large databases that consist of disparate types of information. There are several Hypertext systems available for Apple Macintosh computers and PCs that enable you to develop your own databases. Such systems are often called authoring systems . HyperCard software from Apple Computer is the most famous.

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Example of philosophical hypertext

Alan Bigelow, Professor of Humanities, has released “Deep Philosophical Questions,” a new digital story at webyarns.com.

Comic strips and philosophy are combined in this digital fiction to answer six important questions that slip between the cracks of serious philosophy, into a place where logic and pedantry have no play.

Bigelow’s work and conversations concerning digital fiction have recently appeared in LACDA (Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts); Gallery XIV (Boston); FILE 2008 (Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil); Hypertext 08: ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Pittsburgh); JavaMuseum.org; and Gallery Aferro (New Jersey), among others. This summer, he had four works selected for the Electronic Literature Organization Conference Media Arts Show in Vancouver, WA. He is on sabbatical leave for 2008-09.

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Internet is not WWW

Internet and World Wide Web – are they the same thing?

The Internet and the World Wide Web are not one and the same. The Internet is a collection of interconnected computer networks linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, etc.

In contrast, the Web is a collection of interconnected documents and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs. The World Wide Web is one of the services accessible via the Internet, along with various others including e-mail, file sharing, online gaming, etc.
However, for all practical purposes and in everyday conversation, they are considered one and the same. In fact, dictionaries and thesauruses often fail to make any distinction.

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Hyper

The prefix hyper- ("over" or "beyond") signifies the overcoming of the old linear constraints of written text. The term "hypertext" is often used where the term hypermedia might seem appropriate. In 1992 Ted Nelson - who coined both terms in 1965 - wrote:

By now the word "hypertext" has become generally accepted for branching and responding text, but the corresponding word "hypermedia," meaning complexes of branching and responding graphics, movies and sound - as well as text - is much less used. Instead they use the strange term "interactive multimedia" - four syllables longer, and not expressing the idea that it extends hypertext. - Nelson , Literary Machines 1992