{"title":"As we do write: hyper-terms for hypertext","authors":"Jim Whitehead","doi":"10.1145/763988.763990","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Coined in the mid-1960’s by Ted Nelson, the term hypertext conjoins hyper and text. Hyper, used as a prefix, derives from the Greek hyper, originally meaning over, or above, but whose meaning typically implies excess or exaggeration. A synonymous prefix is super [43]. There is also the independent meaning of hyper used as a noun to mean, “a person who promotes or publicizes events, people, etc., esp. one who uses flamboyant or questionable methods; promoter; publicist” [43]. Text has the original meaning of words woven together [43], and so combined with hyper, hypertext implies both a super text, a text that, due to interlinking, is greater than the original texts, and a super weaving of words, creating new texts from old.","PeriodicalId":147920,"journal":{"name":"SIGWEB Newsl.","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2000-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"9","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"SIGWEB Newsl.","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/763988.763990","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Coined in the mid-1960’s by Ted Nelson, the term hypertext conjoins hyper and text. Hyper, used as a prefix, derives from the Greek hyper, originally meaning over, or above, but whose meaning typically implies excess or exaggeration. A synonymous prefix is super [43]. There is also the independent meaning of hyper used as a noun to mean, “a person who promotes or publicizes events, people, etc., esp. one who uses flamboyant or questionable methods; promoter; publicist” [43]. Text has the original meaning of words woven together [43], and so combined with hyper, hypertext implies both a super text, a text that, due to interlinking, is greater than the original texts, and a super weaving of words, creating new texts from old.