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Hypertext is:

• a text
• that is interactive
• with its hyperlinks (hypertext links)

Hypertext means text with links in it.

This is the first basic data structure of Internet as you can find it in:

• HTML: hypertext Markup Language - the language used to create hypertext
• HTTP: hypertext Transfer Protocol - this transfer protocol was intended to transport hypertext but has now been extended to transport any sort of data.