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The idea of hypertext seems to have a strong appeal to the computing community; it is for instance a far more visible topic in the popular literature than other obviously useful but less glamorous applications. A number of very different systems go under the hypertext umbrella; this chapter attempts to show what they have in common and where they may legitimately differ, making comparisons and connections with other approaches to information management and retrieval.
“... to no-one did it occur that the book and the maze were one and the same thing.”
Jorge Luis Borges
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Jones, S. (1991). Hypertext Principles. In: Text and Context. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3162-5_9
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