The evolution of hypertext link services

Hypertext, a neologism of the 1960s indicating something which is more than text, has taken over the attention of scholars, businesses and hobbyists i n the form of the World Wide Web. Developed as a hypertext framework for in formation distribution [Berners-Lee 1992], its overseeing organisation (W3C ) has insisted on maintaining and developing a suite of open standards for data formats, communication protocols and programming interfaces to allow a ll comers to participate in a globally shared information repository.