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The term hypertext, invented by Ted Nelson in 1965, usually means text
that is not constrained to be linear. By linear, he means that in most writing
one sentence leads to the next, on paragraph leads to the next, one idea
directly follows another. But in hypertext, even different parts of the same sentences might allow the reader to travel in very different paths to very different ideas. That is to say that, while parts or even all of a hypertext document may be linear, parts or all of a document may be nonlinear. Hypertext escapes the bounds of linearity by means of links or references to other texts. |