Word: hypertexts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many of these out-growths of the Internet. Others include electronic mail and file transfers. The Web exists on the Internet using a language called hypertext transport protocol (http...
...early days, the Web was used almost exclusively for the sharing of long, boring academic documents that I will never understand. The ability to link one text document to the next using the hypertext markup language (HTML) allowed scholastic communities to keep in touch...
...concept of the journal was the brainchild of a year's musing on the tools of the Web, like hypertext, interactivity and multimedia, by Li and Singh...
...There is no popular need right now for multimedia. That's obvious," sighs Michael Joyce, the father of hypertext fiction--nonlinear storytelling in which plot lines unfold in different ways upon subsequent readings. Joyce, an associate professor of English at Vassar College, wrote the "classic" hypertext novel, afternoon, a story. The piece is told one screenful of text at a time; by clicking on adjectives and verbs, readers veer off in far-flung narrative directions. While this may sound like the same experience as following hypertext links around the World Wide Web, afternoon was written in 1987 and distributed...
Curiously, rather than being a boon to the nascent hypertext-fiction movement, the Web is seen as a spoiler: "The regrettable rump faction says we lost the hypertext movement when the Web came along," says Joyce. "No one knows yet how to make this a popular medium." Why? "The Web is all edges and without much depth, and for a writer that is trouble," he says...