What Hypertext is
A system for writing and displaying text that can be linked in multiple ways to related documents and available at several levels of detail. The term was coined by Ted Nelson to refer to a nonlinear system of information browsing and retrieval based on associative links between documents. The World Wide Web uses hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) to link pages and multimedia files.
The meaning of Program
Another term for software, it is basically a list of instructions (written in a programming language) that tells a computer how to execute certain functions and perform tasks in a specific way.
There are many kinds of programs, including:
-antivirus, which detect and remove computer viruses
-application, which are tools that perform specific kinds of tasks (such as word processing)
-authoring, to help create Web sites
-calendar, which contain a calendar or appointment book
-child, which are actually subprograms loaded into memory and used by the main program
-computer program components (CPC), which are routines or modules within a larger program
-conversion, which change a file from one format to another
-demo, which exhibit a sample of a program for free or for a low price
-drawing, used for drawing, illustrating, and editing graphics
-event-driven, which wait for events to occur and then respond to them
-file recovery, which restore files that have been damaged or unintentionally deleted,
-file transfer programs (FTP), which enable a user to copy a file from one computer to another
-formatingt, which erase a disk and prepare it for use
-system, such as the operating system
-utility, which maintain the computer system
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