▶ 15.1 Hypertext Fundamentals
The World Wide Web was the first internet technology to engage people who were not otherwise computer users. Its popularity arises from ease of use. Most people can read and understand web pages on a computer screen, and they quickly learn how to navigate the web by clicking on “hypertext links.”
The term hypertext was coined in the 1970s by computer visionary Ted Nelson, who wanted to improve the computing experience. Nelson proposed computer-aided reading that linked one piece of text to another, making it easy for a reader to pursue a specific interest by jumping between related texts. Nelson credits the idea to the “memex” proposed in a 1945 article by former presidential science adviser Vannevar Bush (1890–1974). ...
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