The Definition of Hypertext and Its History as a Concept
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Hypertext is simplified as exaggerated text in a sense that verbal and nonverbal communication can be formed non sequentially. In terms of technology, forms of communication is limitless in that the power is really up to the person presenting and receiving the communication. That person will then choose a certain path or paths to relate or reiterate the information being passed from destination to destination.
Hypertext Consciousness
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The idea put in place is not of just one idea...as hypertext as explained in the previous reading by Roland Barthes, " text composed of blocks of words (or images) linked electronically by multiple paths, chains, or trails in an open-ended, perpetually unfinished textuality described by the terms link, node, network, web , and path". This form is more of a visual representation of actual hypertext. Each link connects to another set of words which have more links residing within the sentences. And in some form or another the words relate to the concepts and ideas of what hypertext actually means and how it operates within a screen graphically and the mental impact it has on the viewer.