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Article: Hypertext and online ... a lot that's familiar.
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- January 1, 1989
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If you think about it, in some respects the notion of hypertext is old hat in the online industry. What are large bibliographic files like MEDLINE or BIOSIS but computer-accessible collections of "links" (pointers) which map a particular search for information to those (source) texts which presumably contain the desired information? Certainly the relationship between an abstract residing in an online database and, say, a corresponding dissertation on microfilm is something of a hypertext link, albeit without the necessary computer involvement in delivering the full text. As Jeff Conklin puts it in his excellent introduction to hypertext:
"Intertextual ...