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Hypertext, multimedia and hypermedia
Roy Rada
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Abstract
The concepts of hypertext, multimedia and hypermedia are often confused, but can be usefully distinguished with the following definitions: hypertext is text with links, multimedia is synchronized media, and hypermedia is multimedia with links. The computer storage and processing requirements for multimedia are orders of magnitude greater than those for hypertext. Nevertheless, the hypertext model can be extended to deal with hypermedia by including multimedia synchronization capabilities.