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. …showed first 75 words of 409 total…

…showed last 75 words of 409 total…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.