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  2. Hypertext - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext

    Hypertext documents are interconnected by hyperlinks, which are typically activated by a mouse click, keypress set, or screen touch. Apart from text, the term "hypertext" is also sometimes used to describe tables, images, and other presentational content formats with integrated hyperlinks.

  3. Hyperlink - Wikipedia

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    A hyperlink points to a whole document or to a specific element within a document. Hypertext is text with hyperlinks. The text that is linked from is known as anchor text. A software system that is used for viewing and creating hypertext is a hypertext system, and to create a hyperlink is to hyperlink (or simply to link).

  4. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Linking

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    Linking through hyperlinks is an important feature of Wikipedia. Internal links bind the project together into an interconnected whole. Interwikimedia links bind the project to sister projects such as Wikisource, Wiktionary and Wikipedia in other languages, and external links bind Wikipedia to the World Wide Web.

  5. Wikipedia:Researching with Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    One of the lesser known, but extremely useful, techniques for researching with Wikipedia is the effective use of the "What links here" link which (for most current skins) appears on the rightt side of the screen, as the first item in the box marked "General". This will give you a complete list of other Wikipedia articles which link to the ...

  6. PageRank - Wikipedia

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    It is assumed in several research papers that the distribution is evenly divided among all documents in the collection at the beginning of the computational process. The PageRank computations require several passes, called "iterations", through the collection to adjust approximate PageRank values to more closely reflect the theoretical true value.

  7. Wikipedia:Academic use - Wikipedia

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    However, citation of Wikipedia in research papers may be considered unacceptable because Wikipedia is not a reliable source. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Many [ 4 ] colleges and universities, as well as public and private secondary schools, have policies that prohibit students from using Wikipedia as their source for doing research papers, essays, or ...

  8. History of hypertext - Wikipedia

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    Engineer Vannevar Bush wrote As We May Think in 1945 describing his conception of the Memex, a machine that could implement what we now call hypertext.His aim was to help humanity achieve a collective memory with such a machine and avoid the use of scientific discoveries for destruction and war Douglas Engelbart in 2008, at the 40th anniversary celebrations of "The Mother of All Demos" in San ...

  9. Deep linking - Wikipedia

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    The technology behind the World Wide Web, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), does not actually make any distinction between "deep" links and any other links—all links are functionally equal. This is intentional; one of the design purposes of the Web is to allow authors to link to any published document on another site.