Patent ID: 8396919

Claim:
A hypertext displaying apparatus for downloading hypertext data via a network, and displaying a content represented by the hypertext data, comprising: a non-transitory memory device storing a program; and a processing device configured to execute the program and cause the hypertext displaying apparatus to operate as: a download section configured to download, when a link destination is selected, hypertext data at the selected link destination, and store the downloaded hypertext data in a temporary storage section; a stored data storage section configured to store hypertext data selected from among the hypertext data having been downloaded and stored in the temporary storage section by the download section; a list display section configured to display a list of stored data in the stored data storage section; a select section configured to select a stored data from the list displayed by the list display section; a display section configured to display a content represented by hypertext data newly downloaded by the download section, or display a content represented by the stored data selected by the select section; a displaying history storage section configured to store, as a displaying history, an order in which at least one content represented by hypertext data newly downloaded by the download section is displayed by the display section; and a redisplaying order control section configured to control, in accordance with the displaying history stored in the displaying history storage section, an order in which the contents are redisplayed by the display section, wherein when a content represented by a first stored data in the stored data storage section is displayed, and a link destination indicated within the content represented by the first stored data is selected, the displaying history storage section adds the content represented by the first stored data to the displaying history, and when a content at the selected link destination is displayed, and an instruction for displaying a content preceding the content at the selected link destination is issued, the redisplaying order control section allows contents to be redisplayed by the display section in a sequential manner in accordance with an order of the displaying history, going back, at least to the content represented by the first stored data.