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Hypermedia is a form of media (things like text, images, video) that has things you can click on / interact with to navigate to other pages. | Hypermedia is a form of media (things like text, images, video) that has things you can click on / interact with to navigate to other pages. | ||
An early example of hypermedia is the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspen_Movie_Map Aspen Movie Map] which allowed you to travel to a building by clicking on it. On its own this idea is useful but with the introduction of [[URL|URLs]] you gain the ability to combine multiple hypermedia into one bigger hypermedia. A good example of this is this wiki page | An early example of hypermedia is the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspen_Movie_Map Aspen Movie Map] which allowed you to travel to a building by clicking on it. On its own this idea is useful but with the introduction of [[URL|URLs]] you gain the ability to combine multiple hypermedia into one bigger hypermedia. A good example of this is this wiki page: it has its own URL which allows other hypermedia to link to it and at the same time it links to other webpages using their URL. This results in a bigger hypermedia called the '''W'''orld '''W'''ide '''W'''eb. | ||
A precise definition of hypermedia is: a nonlinear medium of information that includes graphics, audio, video, plain text and hyperlinks.<ref>[https://pasteapp.com/p/IJIiAuCBnIM/s/cpFL2NDZ2AK?view=t1vRSCi5S8N Talk: use standards]</ref>. | A precise definition of hypermedia is: a nonlinear medium of information that includes graphics, audio, video, plain text and hyperlinks.<ref>[https://pasteapp.com/p/IJIiAuCBnIM/s/cpFL2NDZ2AK?view=t1vRSCi5S8N Talk: use standards]</ref>. | ||