Origin of "Hyper" in Hypercard and Hypervisor

[booyahbooyah]

I'm curious about the love of the word "Hyper" among programmers.

Any thoughts / theories?

 

[FoxFifth]

The Etymology section of the following has some information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext

 

[jtara]

I would presume it was a reference to Ted Nelson's hypertext concept.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson

 

[nissan.gtp]

ah Hypercard, how I miss thee....