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- Definition: Hypertext
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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 because it combines six important ideas:
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- (1) BROWSING -- Rapidly find what you didn't know you wanted
- (2) CONTEXT-FREE -- Works without prior knowledge of the subject
- (3) EASY-USE -- Intuitive commands totally mastered in a minute <link34>
- (4) OBVIOUS -- Users always know status of retrieval process
- (5) SPEED -- Finds what you want within a dozen keystrokes <link36>
- (6) SHOWS KNOWLEDGE -- Relationships and boundaries in answers
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- MaxThink provides both hypertext construction software <link54>
- and commercial knowledge systems that meet these goals.