Hyper text and the non-linear tradition
Date Submitted: 11/10/2004 16:45:52
Hypertext is a special type of database, on which objects like text, pictures, music,
and videos, could be linked to each other. For example, while reading a document about
space, you might click on the phrase Mars, and this could display Mars pictures, a more
specific article about Mars or even videos about the "red planet. According to
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/H/hypertext.html , hypertext was invented by Ted
Nelson in the 1960s.
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read it. This freedom could lead the reader to
create his own meaning of the text more easily. According to
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0117.html , a good example of non-linear
narrative is Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch. This book has two approved readings . One is the
normal or traditional way to read a book, this is to read it from chapter 1 to chapter 73,
and then there is the non-linear way that is read backwards.
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