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- HTML (Hypertext markup language)
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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)
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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
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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
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From Hypertext Terms (1995-04-15) | Glossary for this source
Text which is not constrained to be linear.
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- virtual hypertext
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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.
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