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Hypertext

octubre 29th, 2008 · No hay Comentarios

Hypertext is a recent innovation, which consists of a text on a computer that will be used by several people, being its main advantage that it is dynamic.

The hypertext’s invention dates back to the late 1980s when a scientist at CERN, called Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web (commonly known as the Web) for the purpose of sharing information with other scientists from universities all around the world. Consequently, the web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via internet.

Some years later, an Internet browser was created, Lynx. A web browser allows us to view Web pages that may contain text, images, videos and other multimedia, navigating between them using hyperlinks.

As time passed by, some new web browsers were produced, including NeXTSTEP and Mosaic. Mosaic ran in the X Window System environment, which at the time was popular in the research community. Moreover, this system allowed images as well as text to anchor hypertext links.

After the release of web browsers for Pc and Macintosh environments, traffic on the World Wide Web quickly exploded. Take for instance that in the year 1993 there were about 500 known servers, reaching the amount of 10,000 in the year 1994, even if this technology suffered a lack of typed links, backlinks, transclusion and source tracking.

Furthermore, in the year 1995, Ward Cunningham made the first wiki available.

 

Hypertext. (2008, October 18). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 11:17, October 29, 2008, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hypertext&oldid=246170607

World Wide Web. (2008, October 23). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 11:18, October 29, 2008, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=World_Wide_Web&oldid=247076315

      

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