Douglas Rushkoff

While we may blame the Internet for the ease with which conspiracy theories proliferate, the net is really much more culpable for the way it connects everything to almost everything else. The hypertext link, as we used to call it, allows any fact or idea to become intimately connected with any other.

American Journalist

Robert Cailliau

The Web is actually a coming together of three technologies, if you like: the hypertext, the personal computer, and the network. So, the network we had, and the personal computers were there, but people didn't use them, because they didn't know what to use them for, except maybe for a few games.

Belgian Scientist

What is hypertext? It is a method of giving a text more depth, structuring it, and letting the computer help you explore it. Links, like we know today - you see some blue underlined word and you click on it and it takes you somewhere else. That's the simplest definition of hypertext.

Ted Nelson

So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.

American Author

Thomas Watson, Jr.

The serendipitous nature of hypertext links is just brilliant for a curious mind. I love it.

American Businessman

Hypertext allows users to interact with digital text to access more information.

Interactive Text

Hypertext is fundamental in web navigation, connecting web pages via clickable links.

Web Navigation

Hypertext is different from plain text because it contains links to other texts or documents.

Not Plain Text

 were able to do over networks we developed the system so it had a markup language based on HTML we call the HTML hypertext markup language and the system was capable of doing very very large documentation systems over computer networks so I do this system to a trade

The day I turned down...

 I want to ask your help in a new reframing. So going back to 1989, I wrote a memo suggesting the global hypertext system. Nobody really did anything with it, pretty much.