Hyperception n An altered state of consciousness induced by reading hypertext and characterized by the inability to focus on single, distinct ideas. Cognitive astigmatism
Hyperemptory adj Exceptionally abrupt, as a direct hypertext link to a random location in RAM
Hyperennial n Any topic of which computer journalists annually announce that this is The Year, such as Unix, networking, OS/2, AI, multimedia, desktop fill-in-the-blank, or hypertext
Hyperenthetical adj Characterized by being a digression within a digression (within a digression. . .) The variation in spelling is not arbitrary. The Indo-European root from which the par of parenthetical derives is spelled with an e, and means to grant reciprocally, with the idea of getting something back. The Indo-European tradition that one ought to be able to get something back, or just to get back, from a digression, perished with their culture
Hyperformance n Multidimensional ineptitude
Hyperfume n The smell of hype
Hypergonomics n An academic's idea of a catchy term
Hyperhaps n Goings-on in hyperspace
Hyperimeter n A multidimensional boundary separating the obvious from the irrelevant
Hyperiodical n Any nonlinear serial publication; a journal that appears regularly but not regular
Hyperipatetic adj Lost in hyperspace
Hyperipheral adj Lying beyond the hyperimeter, as opposed to ordinary lying
Hyperiscope n A hypertext navigational aid used when maps and browsers fail; in earlier days called a "core dump."
Hypermanent store n 1. The locus of data protected from accidental deletion by virtue of being lost; hypertext's contribution to the architecture of write-only memory.
Hypermute v.t To rearrange hypertext links randomly. To engage in data annealing
Hyperparallel adj Skew
Hyperpendicular adj Skew
Hyperpetrate v.t To implement a hypertext system
Hyperpilosity n A measure of the hairiness of a hypertext system
Hyperplex n A movie theater of the 1990s. If, as has been suggested by no less eminent hypermedia experts than Ted Nelson and Paul Heckel, the future of the personal computer can be read on the silver screen, we should expect the workstation of 1999 to run more expensive software with less content and more flash, and to display it on six tiny monitors
Hypersian n Persian poet Omar Khayyam, who wrote one of the oldest known nonlinear documents (later linearized by Edward Fitzgerald as the Rubaiyat) and left this advice to readers of hypertext:
Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why; Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
Hyperu n The Andes
Hyperversion number n A complexity measure for hypertext documents
Hypervert interj A greeting from one hypertext system designer to another
Hypuree n Hypertext with the links removed
Hypurgative n Garbage collection for hypertext
Hypurpose n A noble ambition worthy of significant financial backing but incapable of being expressed in terms that mere linearists can understand
Hypursuant adj In accordance with in a higher dimension, as in, "Hypursuant to your directive that the staff dress more formally while in the office, I am taking Friday afternoon off to go to the beach"
These hijinks were inspired by Stan Kelly-Bootle's The Devil's DP Dictionary, McGraw-Hill, 1981.
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