Hypertext is text containing links to third-party resources, web pages, etc. When clicking on such markers, the user is taken to a page that explains the highlighted word or expression. This concept has become widely known relatively recently. And therefore, many users also have a question about who and when the term hypertext was introduced.
This expression was most widespread precisely in the era of computers. However, the principle of presenting information with simultaneous clarification or clarification of certain words has been used in the literature for a long time. The most famous book containing such markers is, oddly enough, the Bible. Indeed, almost every chapter of Scripture contains references to other sections and chapters.
So when and by whom was the term hypertext introduced?
For the first time this word, which most accurately reflects the essence of the "multi-tiered" text, was used in 1965 by Ted Nelson. It is this American sociologist and philosopher who is considered the inventor of the term hypertext.
This concept was described by Nelson himself as follows: "hypertext is a text that has its own nature, ramifies and is capable of performing a huge number of actions at once at the request of the reader."
Application of the principle
So, it is clear by whom and when the term hypertext was introduced. Subsequently, on the basis of such a scheme, researchers made many important discoveries and achievements. For example, it was on this principle of building information that Douglas Engelbart created the NLS technology. Its essence was the storage and transmission of information by distributing databases into structured departments.
The most famous discovery, to which researchers pushed the concept of Nelson's hypertext, was the Internet. The World Wide Web is called that way because it is precisely a multi-tiered, branched, almost ideally structured source of information.
In addition to modern technologies, the principle of hypertext today, as in the past, is often used in literature - mainly in applied and scientific ones. And here its use, of course, is more than justified. Indeed, through just such a scheme, the author of a scientific work can consistently and most conveniently provide the reader with a maximum of useful information.
