Hypertext

Hypertext is a concept consisting of having self-referencial documents linked together with the goal of augmenting Human Intelect. The concept of Hypertext was first defined in the now-classic article As We May Think by Dr. Vannever Bush in 1944, in which he described a machine (known as the Memex) designed to store the entierty of known human knowledge in a compressed format with references. It was not until 1968 that The Mother of All Demos demonstrated the NLX Machine, the first realization of the concept. Following this, in the 1970's, Ted Nelson coined the term HyperText in his book Computer Lib/Dream Machines in which he envisioned a future where technology has unlocked the full potential of human knowledge. He later created Project Xanadu, which was representative of the World Wide Web, created later.

In the modern world (thanks to the World Wide Web), the majority of HyperText concepts are completely and utterly dead and forgotten, and the only thing people think of when the word HyperText is said are Websites or Wikipedia.