Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Hypertext, Lev Manovich, Judy Malloy, Deena Larsen, Shelley Jackson, Senghor on the rocks, Hypertext fiction, N. Katherine Hayles, Digital poetry, Geoffrey Sauer, EServer.org, The Mongoliad, Robert Coover, Literatronica, Hyperland, Interactive novel, Cybertext, Wraithsandworlds, Victory Garden, Stuart Moulthrop, Juan B. Gutierrez, Eastgate Systems, Ergodic literature, Lisbeth Klastrup, Jay David Bolter, Nick Montfort, Afternoon, a story, J. Yellowlees Douglas, Kate Pullinger, Patchwork Girl, George Landow, Storyspace, Michael Joyce, List of electronic literature authors, critics, and works, Prehistoric Digital Poetry, Elfland catacombs, Electronic Literature Organization, B&R Samizdat Express, The Virtual Disappearance of Miriam, Craig J Saper. Excerpt: Hypertext is text displayed on a computer or other electronic device with references (hyperlinks) to other text that the reader can immediately access, usually by a mouse click or keypress sequence. Apart from running text, hypertext may contain tables, images and other presentational devices. Hypertext is the underlying concept defining the structure of the World Wide Web. It is an easy-to-use and flexible format to share information over the Internet. The prefix hyper- (comes from the Greek prefix " -" and means "over" or "beyond") signifies the overcoming of the old linear constraints of written text. The term "hypertext" is often used where the term "hypermedia" might seem appropriate. In 1992, author Ted Nelson - who coined both terms in 1963 - wrote: By now the word "hypertext" has become generally accepted for branching and responding text, but the corresponding word "hypermedia," meaning complexes of branching and responding graphics, movies and sound - as well as text - is much less used. Instead they use the strange term "interactive multimedia" this is...