Hypermedia

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The use of text, data, graphics, audio and video as elements of an extended hypertext system in which all elements are linked so that the user can move among them at will. uncountable

    "From the `70s onwards, Muffler, de Sola Pool and other gurus attempted to prove that the advent of hypermedia would paradoxically involve a return to the economic liberalism of the past."

  2. 2
    a multimedia system in which related items of information are connected and can be presented together wordnet

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hypermedia systeminteractive multimediainteractive multimedia system

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"From the `70s onwards, Muffler, de Sola Pool and other gurus attempted to prove that the advent of hypermedia would paradoxically involve a return to the economic liberalism of the past."

Etymology

From hyper- + media, coined by American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist Ted Nelson in 1965.

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