Other Advantages of Hypertext

Because they are stored electronically as data, hypertext documents can be assembled easily into an information database, which can be searched in normal, everyday language by special search software. You don't have to be a programmer to find the information you need, and when you get it, you can examine it in any order.

The other main advantage of hypertext and hypermedia is that, being electronic, they can be linked to other information databases on other computers. This is what makes the world-wide aspect of the Web so truly revolutionary. With the power of the Internet, the whole world can become one big information database. Nothing like this has ever happened in the history of knowlege.