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HTML (Hypertext markup language)

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source

A computer language for representing the contents of a page of hypertext; the language that most Web pages are currently written in.
HTTP (Hypertext transfer protocol)

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source

A computer protocol for transferring information across the Net in such a way as to meet the demands of a global hypertext system. Part of the original design of the Web, continued in a W3C activity, and now a HTTP 1.1 IETF draft standard.
hypertext

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source

Nonsequential writing; Ted Nelson's term for a medium that includes links. Nowadays it includes other media apart from text and is sometimes called hypermedia.
hypertext

From Hypertext Terms (1995-04-15) | Glossary for this source

Text which is not constrained to be linear. (More...)
virtual hypertext

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source

Hypertext that is generated from its URI by a program, rather than by recourse to a stored file. This was my name for the idea. The CERN phone book was the first example, in 1991. It is sometimes difficult to tell, and impossible to define formally, what is virtual hypertext and what is not.

The Glossary System has been built by Pierre Candela during an internship in W3C; it's now maintained by Dominique Hazael-Massieux

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