In this article about the best developers, we will talk about hypertext, an application tool with a sequential structure that allows us to create, add, link and share information from different sources through associative links.
What is hypertext?
Hypertext in computing is a text with hyperlinks (an element that references another resource) or cross-references that go to another document (Lexia, a lexical unit composed of monemes related by a high index of inseparability). Another way to find hypertext is stretchtext, which consists of two indicators (allowing the text to move from top to bottom on the screen) and a screen.
Generally its name leads us to confusion that hypertext is only framed in textual data, but we are wrong, because we can find it in drawings, sounds, videos or specific elements related to the topic. And all these hypertexts we can read from our web browser (Hypermedia).
The history of hypertext
The concept of hypertext was created by American Vannevar Bush. Vannevar invented the Memex (a database device, which was never materialized by anyone, in which all kinds of documents would be stored), a device that allowed user interaction, allowing to mechanize and connect information.
In 1965 Ted Nelson created a system that allows the same text to appear in multiple contexts (without duplicating it), he called it Xanadu (like Kane's mansion in the movie Citizen Kane). Although Ted Nelson was the first to use the word "hypertext", Andries Van Dam in 1967 created HES, the first hypertext system.
In 1968 Douglas Engelbart designed a medium based on an interface that allows direct manipulation with the use of the mouse and called it NLS. But Engelbart is missing a leg to complete his work, so he decides to associate with Ted Nelson to develop an application in which you can implement the notions of hypermedia and hypertext. There were great advances in the following decades, but it is in 1991 that hypermedia reaches the World Wide Web (in 2001 the NCSA was created).
The uses of hypertext
One of the great advantages of hypertext is being able to store a lot of information in a small space (information is shown segmented). If we put it into practice, hypertext is used as reference material, where the user can go to the extended information, or can continue reading the document. Or as material fragmented into short sections (complementary information).
