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Hypertext was later remade for the Internet as HTML, or Hypertext Markup Language. Like Hypertext before it, it formats text and makes it simpler for people to navigate through information. It is not a strict computer langauge but more of an information language that allows the coding or layout of HTML pages such as this one you are currently viewing. While several visionaries saw some use of textual format for documents before Tim Berners-Lee, its Tim Berners-Lee efforts in making both the spec and the browser to view the first hmtl pages part of opensource or open standards.
In contrast, items like Xanadu and Gopher never caught on with both end users and others due to their closed source nature.
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Hypertext
What is Hypertext?
Hypertext is an old language made for DOS that was used to make programs that contained information interactive. You could, for example, use buttons to navigate between different "pages" of the program. It never became very popular, mainly because it couldn't do anything besides navigating data like a book.Hypertext was later remade for the Internet as HTML, or Hypertext Markup Language. Like Hypertext before it, it formats text and makes it simpler for people to navigate through information. It is not a strict computer langauge but more of an information language that allows the coding or layout of HTML pages such as this one you are currently viewing. While several visionaries saw some use of textual format for documents before Tim Berners-Lee, its Tim Berners-Lee efforts in making both the spec and the browser to view the first hmtl pages part of opensource or open standards.
In contrast, items like Xanadu and Gopher never caught on with both end users and others due to their closed source nature.
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