Hypertext

On the one hand and according to the Webpage http://www.w3.org/ and the scientist Ted Nelson, the meaning of  Hypertext (a concept, not a product) is a text which contains links and isn’t constrained to be clear. However, Wikipedia says that the Hypertext text on a computer that will lead the user to other, related information on demand. Hypertext is a representation of  a relative recent innovation to user interfaces.

On the other hand,Roland Barthes points out that the hypertext is an ideal text that precisely matches. As I said before, it consist on a text composed of an amount of words or images linked electronically. They are also perpetually unfinished.

Hypertext is a text that branches and allows choices to the reader, such as the possibility of taking differet pathways to read the text the reader wants to. Hypertext also denotes a medium information, which links verbal and non – verbal information.

 

• Hypertext. (2009, January 3). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 19:29, January 14, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hypertext&oldid=261678198 

• The Definition of Hypertext and Its History as a Concept (Pages 3-4 in print version. © the Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992) from cyberartsweb retrieved 14/01/2009 20:33 http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/ht/jhup/history.html#1 

• What is HyperText? retrieved 14/01/2009 20:35 http://www.w3.org/WhatIs.html