Ted Nelson (dubbed: "The father of hypertext") "A combination of natural language text with the computer's capacity for interactive branching"
Ted Nelson (again)
"Dynamic display of a nonlinear text which cannot be printed conveniently on a conventional page"
P. J. Brown
"Representation of a body of information in a form that captures all the inherent interlinks in the information"
Elmer Sanvad (If anyone knows who he is, please let me know!)
"Organization of a document as a collection of nodes connected by direct links"
Richard Rubenstein (author of Digital Typography, published by Digital Press)
"A system in which a rich structure of interconnections is created & used within online electronic documents"
Jeff Conklin (author of an IEEE Survey article on hypertext. It's referenced in the bibliography of the reading)
"A computer-based system with the ability to perform high speed, branching transactions on textual elements, to aid thinking and to aid communication"
Fernandez and Lander
"text that recognizes a stimulus (i.e., a mouse click) and is associated with a "link" to another location.
Schneiderman
"a database that has active cross-reference and allows the reader to "jump" to other parts of the database as desired."
Anonymous 1
"Idea Processing"
Anonymous 2
"Basis for global scientific literature"
Prof Paul De Bra's definitions
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