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.
     
        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)