Hyper text and the non-linear tradition

Hypertext is a special type of database, on which objects like text, pictures, music, and videos, could be linked to each other. For example, while reading a document about space, you might click on the phrase Mars, and this could display Mars pictures, a more specific article about Mars or even videos about the "red planet. According to http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/H/hypertext.html , hypertext was invented by Ted Nelson in the 1960s. …

…read it. This freedom could lead the reader to create his own meaning of the text more easily. According to http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0117.html , a good example of non-linear narrative is Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch. This book has two approved readings . One is the normal or traditional way to read a book, this is to read it from chapter 1 to chapter 73, and then there is the non-linear way that is read backwards.