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- Definition: Hypertext
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- │ Hypertext organizes information using network relationships so users │
- │ can rapidly find and understand whatever they desire -- all without │
- │ prior knowledge of the subject or the access technology. │
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- Hypertext may be the most important new technology since the
- invention of the printing press years because it combines six
- important ideas: <link28>
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- BROWSING -- Rapidly find what you didn't know you wanted <link32>
- CONTEXT-FREE -- Works without prior knowledge of the subject <link33>
- EASY-USE -- Intuitive commands totally mastered in a minute <link34>
- OBVIOUS -- Users always know status of retrieval process <link35>
- SPEED -- Finds what you want within a dozen keystrokes <link36>
- SHOWS KNOWLEDGE -- Relationships and boundaries in answers <link37>
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- MaxThink Corporation provides both hypertext construction <link27>
- software and commercial knowledge systems that meet these <link30>
- goals. <link31>
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