Hypertext

In this lecture we talk about hypertext but what is hypertext? According to Dr. Stewart's notes hypertext is" Texts composed of blocks of text and the electronic llinks between them".[Blackboard Academic Suite]

Hypertext is flexible tool in our hands. It has links and information which they never end. Book has boundaries. it has a start and it has a story which is usually already defined by the author. On the other side hypertext is a "book" with no end. Each author add something everytime and by that way the "stoey never ends. You have links, hyperlinks and information which lead every time in a different place. Readers can search and find information without reading all the book.

I believe that hypertext is not killing the author. We have again the dillema "Old" or "New" Media. I believe that books and hypertext can "live" together. We could say that have the improvement of "old" media. Hypertext is giving you the opportunity to find easy information, make us authors because we can write and tell our opinion but on the other hand book will always have its "magic". The smell of a new book, the feeling of pages in our hands and even the cover of the book couldn't never replace them with anything.