Editing Hypertext (section)

{{Short description|Text with references (links) to other text that the reader can immediately access}}
{{for|the concept in semiotics|Hypertext (semiotics)}}

[[File:hyperlinks_scheme.svg|thumb|Visual abstraction of several documents being connected by [[hyperlink]]s]]

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[[File:Vannevar Bush portrait.jpg|thumb|Engineer [[Vannevar Bush]] wrote "[[As We May Think]]" in July of 1945 in which he described the [[Memex]], a theoretical proto-hypertext device which in turn helped inspire the subsequent invention of hypertext.]]

[[File:Douglas Engelbart in 2008.jpg|thumb|[[Douglas Engelbart]] in 2009, at the 40th anniversary celebrations of "[[The Mother of All Demos]]" in San Francisco, a 90-minute 1968 presentation of the [[NLS (computer system)|NLS computer system]] which was a combination of hardware and software that demonstrated many hypertext ideas]]

'''Hypertext''' is [[E-text|text]] displayed on a [[computer display]] or other [[electronic devices]] with references ([[hyperlinks]]) to other text that the reader can immediately access.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hypertext | title=Hypertext | type=definition |publisher=Merriam-webster Free Online Dictionary | access-date= February 26, 2015}}</ref> Hypertext documents are interconnected by hyperlinks, which are typically activated by a [[mouse (computing)|mouse]] click, keypress set, or screen touch. Apart from text, the term "hypertext" is also sometimes used to describe tables, images, and other presentational [[content format]]s with integrated hyperlinks. Hypertext is one of the key underlying concepts of the [[World Wide Web]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lehman |first1=Jeffrey |last2=Phelps |first2=Shirelle |title=West's Encyclopedia of American Law, Vol. 9 | edition=2 |date=2005 |publisher=Thomson/Gale |location=Detroit |isbn=9780787663742 |page=451}}</ref> where [[Web page]]s are often written in the [[Hypertext Markup Language]] (HTML). As implemented on the Web, hypertext enables the easy-to-use publication of information over the [[Internet]].