machine-readable text that is not sequential but is organized so that related items of information are connected
"Let me introduce the word hypertext to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper"
Digital text in which the reader may navigate related information through embedded hyperlinks.
"I clicked on a blue word within the hypertext to instantly jump to the detailed biography of the author mentioned just before."