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<p>New page: A &#039;&#039;&#039;hyperlink&#039;&#039;&#039; is a user interface element that consists of a word or several words which are used to direct a user, upon the clicking of the element, to either a specific location, a s...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>A '''hyperlink''' is a user interface element that consists of a word or several words which are used to direct a user, upon the clicking of the element, to either a specific location, a specific resource or a specific in-page reference to which the element links.<br /> <br /> The concept of the hyperlink has formed the core of the concept of hypertext, in that it allows for the publication of electronic documents which are &quot;linked&quot; to each other by way of a user clicking on the aforementioned element in a text document. Multiple words can be linked to other documents within a single document, as was demonstrated in the stand-alone database software applications like HyperCard in the 1980s. However, beginning in 1992, a British mathematician named Tim Berners-Lee and his co-worker at a nuclear research facility in Switzerland, Robert Caillau, began posting such linked text documents to an Internet server; this necessitated the use of the universal resource locator, a string which, in a human-readable manner, directed the user to the location of another document on a specific Internet server. The [[World Wide Web]] was thus conceived from previously-existing technologies and concepts, and is used extensively in the 21st century.<br /> <br /> ==In wikis==<br /> The first [[wiki]], or website was created to allow users to easily create, edit and link documents together within the wiki; to that end, Ward Cunningham's wiki (which has continuously run since 1994) allowed for users to create links to both existent and non-existent articles within the wiki by using CamelCase syntax. If a page was not created yet but was hyperlinked within another wiki document, one could click the link to the non-existent article, which would then direct the user to a &quot;Create new page&quot; user interface to allow the user to create a new page with new hyperlinks.<br /> <br /> This was later enhanced in newer wikis, such as [[Wikipedia]]; in Wikipedia's software, CamelCase syntax for hyperlinks were dropped in favor of &quot;free links&quot;, or links which were created from simply appending double brackets to both sides of a word or words. Furthermore, the concept of the &quot;redlink&quot;, or a text link that is colored red to denote a link to a non-existent article, was advanced by Wikipedia.<br /> <br /> ==In P2P networks==<br /> In Gnutella, a prominently-used network protocol for [[peer-to-peer]] [[file sharing]], [[magnet link]]s are primarily used to retrieve available, downloadable instances of media files from computers currently using Gnutella. However, such links are machine-generated (and barely-human-readable).</div>

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