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Hypermedia documents - Definitions and related concepts

Authors: Marc NANARD, Jocelyne NANARD

Publication date: February 10, 1999

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1. The word hypermedia and its context of use

The aim of this first paragraph is to clarify the meaning of the word hypermedia, to distinguish it from related words with which it is often confused. The terms multimedia, multimodality and hypermedia cover very different notions.

1.1 Multimedia

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1.1.1 Etymology

The compound word "multi-media" was used in French long before computers gave it its current meaning. At the beginning of the second half of this century, advertising broadcast by radio, television, the press and posters was described...

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