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:''This article is about the computer technology. See [[HES (disambiguation)]] for other uses.''

The '''Hypertext Editing System''', or '''HES''', was an early [[hypertext]](sic) research project conducted at [[Brown University]] in 1967 by [[Andries van Dam]], [[Ted Nelson]], and several Brown students. It's purpose however was not to click on text phrases to see other documents but to electronically 'hyper' edit

HES was a pioneering hypertext system that organized data into two main types: links and branching text. The branching text could automatically be arranged into menus and a point within a given area could also have an assigned name, called a label, and be accessed later by that name from the screen.