From the course: Computer Science Principles: The Internet
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Hypertext and HTML
From the course: Computer Science Principles: The Internet
Hypertext and HTML
- When you read a book, you go through information from beginning to end. As books got more complicated they added things like a table of contents. So you could scan a list of chapters and know where in the book you needed to go. With more complicated books there's an index where more common words or phrases that people will want to know are listed in the back with page numbers where you can go find out about that specific phrase or topic. But in the digital world these concepts are a little limited. When you are reading about a topic you might be at word or phrase you want to know more about. It would be great if you could just avoid having to go to a table of contents, or an index, and just click it to jump right to that information. That is how hypertext works. If I have a document that talks about fruit I'll read about what makes a fruit a fruit, and how fruits grow and seed and sprout. On that page I can have additional information about specific fruit like an apple, a pear, or a…
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