In a strictly computer-based sense, hypertext is a system of linkage where a user can click on one part of a text and immediately be transported to anoth er section of text. On the World Wide Web hypertext is indicated by underlined words. Hypertext is actually making use of a concept that humans have been unconciously employing for a very long time. Anytime you're having a conversation and the current topic brings up some association in your mind...that's hypertext!
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