This 3 sentence summary provides the key information from the document: Hypertext allows for nonlinear, associative linking of information across various sources through embedded hyperlinks, as described in works from 1945 by Vannevar Bush and 1965 by Ted Nelson, with Bush envisioning new forms of encyclopedias that utilize associative trails and Nelson coining the term "hypertext" to describe branching and responsive text.

1. Week 7 - Hypertext COM546 17 February 2010 Kathy E. Gill

2. Flashback of the week: This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box. There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance and indifference. This weapon of television could be useful. Murrow, 1958, RTNDA Convention

4. “When the user is building a trail, he names it, inserts the name in his code book, and taps it out on his keyboard…

5. “[H]ereafter, at any time, when one of these items is in view, the other can be instantly recalled merely by tapping a button…

6. “Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them…”

7. Vannevar Bush 1945 As We May Think

8. “By now the word ‘hypertext’ has become generally accepted for branching and responding text…”

9. Ted Nelson 1965