(From hypertext "hot spot") A doCUment on the World-Wide Web or a user' s browser configuration file containing hypertextlinks, often unorganised and undoCUmented, to notable pages on the Web. Compare the 19th century notion of a {commonplace book (http://c.gp.cs.cmu.edu:5103/prog/webster?commonplace+book)}. (1995-04-16)