For Computers and Writing (Hypertext 3.0)

I am used to thinking of hypertext in the form of a hyperlink. Possibly because I took some web design courses and had to learn HTML, WYSIWYGs, etc. I tend to think of hypertext as code, and the links/images that it produces on the screen for you to click on. Again, I went searching for answers on YouTube. I easily identified with hypertext in this context:

I think this made the most sense, because it is a traditional view of what hypertext is. After thinking about the reading I think that this may be too narrow a definition for what hypertext really is. If hypertext "reconfigures text in a fundamental way not immediately suggested by the fact of linking", then what else can hypertext be (Landow 84)? The answer seems to be in the fact that hypertext is not just text but includes visual elements (hypermedia) that are not the same as hyperlinks.

I found this video rather interesting in that she had a definition of hypermedia as an "extension of hypertext". The book links the two terms together, because to Landow "hypertext systems link together passages of verbal text with images as easily as they link two or more passages of text" and can be used interchangeably since "hypertext includes hypermedia" (84). I think Landow's view is interesting because when I think of how a print book includes pictures it doesn't suddenly stop being a book. Is it still hypertext if it includes images? I think so. The definition of hypertext is expanding beyond the hyperlink, to includes any method of interaction with a text.