hypertext

…and such pages frequently contain hypertext links that allow related pages to be retrieved. HTML is the markup language for encoding Web pages. It was designed by the British scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee at the CERN nuclear physics laboratory in Switzerland during the early 1990s. HTML markup tags specify document…

Taking this perspective implies that hypertexts can be defined as dynamic and interactive meaning-making practices. Notwithstanding their limitations, these definitions are meant to introduce the following discussion of these two terms.

…became popular under the name “hypertext.” In this technique, documents that a person or a group of persons consider related (by concept, sequence, hierarchy, experience, motive, or other characteristics) are connected via “hyperlinks,” mimicking the way humans associate ideas. Objects so linked need not be only text; speech and music,…

…he coined such terms as hypertext.

…is connected by means of hypertext or hypermedia links—i.e., hyperlinks, electronic connections that link related pieces of information in order to allow a user easy access to them. Hypertext allows the user to select a word or phrase from text and thereby access other documents that contain additional information pertaining…

XML provides more kinds of hypertext links than HTML, such as bidirectional links and links relative to a document subsection.