This edition has been converted from a public domain text and adds hypertext browsing for quick navigation.
Investorama, one of America's most popular financial websites, alone boasts over 4, 300 hypertext links to other sites.
This analysis by Theodor Nelson, industry gadfly and inventor of hypertext, was written in 1974 about IBM.
Click on the circle and the case is displayed, with hypertext links to other cases cited within it.
Hypertext links are a tool for spreading knowledge, but also for spreading libel.
Then in 1989 the World Wide Web was created, based on the "hypertext markup language" invented by physicist Tim J.
It even lacks the near-mandatory matching website for updated material and hypertext links to the vastness of the wider information world.
He was part of the network that helped develop hypertext -- online text that links to other text, like this.
The Web refers to the graphical portion of the Internet built around the hypertext-transport protocol created by physicist Tim Berners-Lee in 1990.
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That Web standard is HTML5 , which stands for Hypertext markup language.
Despite BT's claims to the contrary, Tim Berners-Lee is usually credited with inventing the global hypertext system that became the world wide web.
Mr Berners-Lee says that in creating the WWW he drew on the work of computing pioneer Ted Nelson - who is widely regarded as the father of hypertext.
Vannevar Bush died long before the launch of Forbes.com, but he built analog computers in the 1920s and described a mechanism that anticipated hypertext and the Internet in the 1940s.
If you want to get a little more technical, take a look at whether the website you are using to transmit information is using HTTPS -- hypertext transfer protocol secure.
The system IBM employs to achieve this, the hyperspeech transfer protocol (HSTP), is similar in principle to the hypertext transfer protocol that provides links from one conventional website to another.
Houston InterWeb Design's flagship software, SiteBlazer, allows anyone to create and update their own Web site without needing any knowledge of programming tools such as HTML (hypertext markup language), he added.
But all these hypertext systems were all very centralised, they were all sort of complete works, beautifully made and finished and they had an index in the middle and everything went somewhere.
But he imagined it all being done using microfilms and electric sensors and mechanics because he didn't have computers and he didn't have the internet then, and then Ted Nelson invented the idea of hypertext.
While still going through the typically painfully slow standardization process, one of the promises of HTML5 (hypertext markup language) is it could greatly simplify the process of porting apps from one type of device to another.
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