The art of navigating through hypertext
Communications of the ACM
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The term hypertext has recently become a known word in computer science. It finally appeared in "Index to the CR Classification System" of ACM Computing Reviews [1]. A hypertext document is distinguished by its nonsequential reading environment. This is because information is divided into sections and each section is stored in a node; the nodes are connected by links. Nodes may have more than one incoming and outgoing link. Using links, the readers have the freedom of reading a hypertext in any way that they want to read. By definition, hypertext is a network of nodes and links. In hypermedia, nodes may contain text, images, animation, video, sound, graphics, programs, etc. In general, the term hypertext is used to indicate nonlinear organization of information.