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will take you from one Internet site to the next
with a simple click of your mouse. You can usually
tell where a link is because the writing will look
different. For instance, some links appear in bold,
some are underlined, and some are even attached to
pictures. Also called a hyperlink.
Using
hypertext, a link is a selectable connection from
one word, picture, or information object to another.
In a multimedia environment such as the World Wide
Web, such objects can include sound and motion video
sequences. The most common form of link is the
highlighted word or picture that can be selected by
the user (with a mouse or in some other fashion),
resulting in the immediate delivery and view of
another file. The highlighted object is referred to
as an anchor. The anchor reference and the object
referred to constitute a hypertext link.
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