Hyperlink

[Fact 1]: For example, in an online reference work such as Wikipedia, many words and terms in the text are hyperlinked to definitions of those terms.

[Fact 2]: Meanwhile, working independently, a team led by Douglas Engelbart |NLS]].A database program HyperCard was released in 1987 for the Apple Macintosh that allowed hyperlinking between various types of pages within a document.While hyperlinking among webpages is an intrinsic feature of the web, some websites object to being linked to from other websites; some have claimed that linking to them is not allowed without permission.Contentious in particular are

deep links, which do not point to a site's home page or another entry point designated by the site owner, but to content elsewhere, allowing the user to bypass the site's own designated flow;

inline links, which incorporate the content in question into the pages of the linking site, making it seem part of the linking site's own content, unless an explicit attribution is added.In certain jurisdictions it is or has been held that hyperlinks are not merely references or citations, but are devices for copying web pages.

[Fact 3]: Text editors, PDF documents, help systems such as Windows Help, word processing documents, spreadsheets, Apple's HyperCard and many other places.The term "hyperlink" was coined in 1965 in which one could link any two pages of information into a "trail" of related information, and then scroll back and forth among pages in a trail as if they were on a single microfilm reel.

[Fact 4]: Hyperlinks are often used to implement reference mechanisms that predate the computer, such as tables of contents, footnotes, bibliographies, indexes and glossaries.The effect of following a hyperlink may vary with the hypertext system and sometimes on the link itself; for instance, on the World Wide Web, most hyperlinks cause the target document to replace the document being displayed, but some are marked to cause the target document to open in a new window.

[Fact 5]: August 23, 2002.In United States jurisprudence, there is a distinction between the mere act of linking to someone else's website, and linking to content that is illegal or infringing.Cybertelecom:: Legal to Link? Several courts have found that merely linking to someone else's website is not copyright or trademark infringement, regardless of how much that someone else might object.Ford Motor Company v.

[Fact 6]: The courts that advocate it see the mere publication of a hyperlink that connects to illegal material to be an illegal act in itself, regardless of whether referencing illegal material is illegal.

[Fact 7]: Following has the effect of displaying its target, often with its context.In some hypertext, hyperlinks can be bidirectional: they can be followed in two directions, so both points act as anchors and as targets.

[Fact 8]: After [[litigation, a court found for Prodigy, ruling that British Telecom's patent did not cover web hyperlinks.CNET News.com, Hyperlink patent case fails to click.

[Fact 9]: Another possibility is transclusion, for which the link target is a document fragment that replaces the link anchor within the source document.

[Fact 10]: In the Netherlands, for example, Karin Spaink was initially convicted of copyright infringement for linking, although this ruling was overturned in 2003.