Hypertext

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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)