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How to pronounce hypertext in English?

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Type of machine-readable text


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.

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Another interesting invention of the 1940s was hypertext, i.e., V. Bush's memex.
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The problem is, in a hypertext medium, mentioning them includes linking to them.
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No doubt Johnson would have embraced the possibilities of hypertext with fervour.
From the guardian.co.uk
Hypertext is the underlying concept defining the structure of the World Wide Web.
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That project dumbed down hypertext to one-way, embedded, non-overlapping links.
From the newscientist.com
In 1989, Berners-Lee wrote a memo proposing an Internet-based hypertext system.
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Project Xanadu was the first hypertext project, founded in 1960 by Ted Nelson.
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It is a very visual form, and is related to hypertext fiction and visual arts.
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This was the same year that Tim Berners-Lee used the idea of hypertext in his HTML.
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  • 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 ...
  • Hypertext is text displayed on a computer or other electronic device with references (hyperlinks) to other text that the reader can immediately access, usually by a mouse click or keypress sequence. Apart from running text, hypertext may contain tables, images and other presentational devices. ...
  • This article presents a timeline of hypertext technology, including "hypermedia" and related human-computer interaction projects and developments from 1945 on. The term hypertext is credited to the author and philosopher Ted Nelson.
  • Digital text in which the reader may navigate related information through embedded hyperlinks; A hypertext document
  • Documents or other information with embedded links that enable a reader to access tangential information at specific points in the text.
  • Generally, any text that contains links to other documents - words or phrases in the document that can be chosen by a reader and which cause another document to be retrieved and displayed.
  • Hypertext is text that is cross-linked to other documents in such a way that the reader can read related documents by clicking on a highlighted word or symbol. (see also hyperlink)
  • Text containing internal and external links or pointers to other texts or services.
  • Text that includes pointers to other text, pictures, movies, etc. "Clicking" on these links takes the reader to the object that it is pointed to. Links may point to documents on other computers connected on the Internet.