*Chat GPT Generated*  ## Citation - **Video:** "Hypermedia On Whatever You'd Like" — Josh (Laravel creator/educator) - **Based on:** Essay by **Carson Gross**, creator of HTMX, published May 23, 2023 - **Source:** [YouTube](https://youtu.be/oEoIiI84LFc) - **Carson Gross:** [Big Sky Software (GitHub)](https://github.com/bigskysoftware) | [bigsky.software](https://bigsky.software) ## Non-Tech Synopsis You already use hypermedia every day — you just don't call it that. **Hypermedia is any content that links to other content.** When you click a link on a webpage and it takes you somewhere new, that's hypermedia in action. When you tap an image and a video plays, or click a button and part of the page updates — that's hypermedia too. Think of it like a "choose your own adventure" book. Instead of reading start to finish, you jump around based on what interests you. A regular book is *linear* — page 1, then page 2. Hypermedia is *non-linear* — you follow links, buttons, and menus to explore in any direction you want. The **"hyper"** part means "beyond" — it goes beyond normal media. A plain text document is just media. Add clickable links, embedded videos, interactive buttons, and navigation between pages? Now it's *hyper*media. The entire World Wide Web is built on this idea. Every website you visit is hypermedia — pages of content connected by links, forms, and interactive elements that let you navigate freely. *Synopsis written by Claude (Anthropic), based on the video cited above.*