Hypertext

Text containing links that let a reader jump to other text. Ted Nelson coined the word in the 1960s; the idea goes back to the memex.

builds on

• Memex concept 1945 [src]

proposed by

• A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing and the Indeterminate writing 1965 [src]

subject of

• Computer Lib / Dream Machines writing 1974 [src]

built upon by

• HyperCard project 1987–2004 [src]
• NLS project 1962 [src]
• Project Xanadu project 1960 [src]
• Transclusion concept 1980 [src]
• Two-way links concept [src]
• World Wide Web project 1990 [src]

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext