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- Definition: Hypertext <sum09 1 6>
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- │ Hypertext organizes information using network relationships so users │
- │ can rapidly find and understand whatever they desire -- all without │
- │ prior knowledge of the subject or the access technology. Neil │
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- Hypertext may be the most important new technology in the last 500
- years <link28> because it combines six important ideas:
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- (1) BROWSING -- Rapidly find what you didn't know you wanted <link32>
- (2) CONTEXT-FREE -- Works without prior knowledge of the subject <link33>
- (3) EASY-USE -- Intuitive commands totally mastered in a minute <link34>
- (4) OBVIOUS -- Users always know status of retrieval process <link35>
- (5) SPEED -- Finds what you want within a dozen keystrokes <link36>
- (6) SHOWS KNOWLEDGE -- Relationships and boundaries in answers <link37>
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- MaxThink Corporation <link27> provides both hypertext
- construction software <link30> and commercial knowledge
- systems <link31> that meet these goals.