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When I read the title of this post, Jon Bois was the first thing that came to mind. 17776 is one of my all time favorite websites, and my goto example of amazin

When I read the title of this post, Jon Bois was the first thing that came to mind. 17776 is one of my all time favorite websites, and my goto example of amazing hypertext fiction. https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football

spelunker 4y ago
17776 was also my first thought once the author revealed he was talking about Bois. 17776 is incredible... and also about football of course (I mean, sort of)
camtarn 4y ago
Ahh! I thought the idea of 'to street' sounded familiar. 17776 is excellent.
Kapura 4y ago
17776 was something that I heard recommended by a bunch of game developers before anybody else. It's one of the most inventive pieces of science fiction I've ever read (watched? experienced?)
- wyldfire 4y ago
  It's super cool -- so far, I'm not quite through it yet. It does have some similarity w/the story from "ST:TMP" though.
- squeaky-clean 4y ago
  One of my best friends sent it to me and asked if I had read it. "No", "Do it, it's right up your alley", "What is it about?", "I'm not going to tell you, and don't google anything about it. Just dive in." It is soooo good.
wyldfire 4y ago
This is incredible. I almost closed the tab when the text grew out of control, I thought it was a bug.
- kelnos 4y ago
  Are you sure it's supposed to do that? I remember reading this story there back when it was printed, and I don't remember the text doing that. I went to read it again a year or so ago, but couldn't, because the text started growing out of control and froze Firefox (as it just did for me now). How do you actually read it? Edit: hmm, if I very quickly scroll to the bottom of the page, I can click the image to go to the next page before Firefox gets too unhappy.
  - squeaky-clean 4y ago
    It's definitely supposed to do that, but only on mobile. Maybe it just hasn't been tested on Firefox (or recent versions of Firefox).
  - kej 4y ago
    Firefox 99 on Windows slows down but eventually gets to the next page. Except for a quick interstitial image of a current time, the next page is here if you want to pick up the story: https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football/chapter-1 https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football/chapter-1
  - jack_pp 4y ago
    It actually froze my thinkpad t490 on Firefox / debian. Had to do a button hard reset
andbberger 4y ago
the sequel is also excellent
phreack 4y ago
My first thought was that the "novel about footbal" TFA was talking about simply _had_ to be 17776. And that whatever else had no chance of even being close to how mind blowing that story is. And lo, turned out to be a regular novel but by the same author. I'll go ahead and read it now, the man's brilliant.
obloid 4y ago
Thanks for posting, this is amazing!
yesbabyyes 4y ago
Fantastic. Thank you.

spelunker 4y ago

17776 was also my first thought once the author revealed he was talking about Bois. 17776 is incredible... and also about football of course (I mean, sort of)

camtarn 4y ago

Ahh! I thought the idea of 'to street' sounded familiar. 17776 is excellent.

Kapura 4y ago

17776 was something that I heard recommended by a bunch of game developers before anybody else. It's one of the most inventive pieces of science fiction I've ever read (watched? experienced?)

wyldfire 4y ago
It's super cool -- so far, I'm not quite through it yet. It does have some similarity w/the story from "ST:TMP" though.
squeaky-clean 4y ago
One of my best friends sent it to me and asked if I had read it. "No", "Do it, it's right up your alley", "What is it about?", "I'm not going to tell you, and don't google anything about it. Just dive in." It is soooo good.

wyldfire 4y ago

This is incredible. I almost closed the tab when the text grew out of control, I thought it was a bug.

kelnos 4y ago
Are you sure it's supposed to do that? I remember reading this story there back when it was printed, and I don't remember the text doing that. I went to read it again a year or so ago, but couldn't, because the text started growing out of control and froze Firefox (as it just did for me now). How do you actually read it? Edit: hmm, if I very quickly scroll to the bottom of the page, I can click the image to go to the next page before Firefox gets too unhappy.
- squeaky-clean 4y ago
  It's definitely supposed to do that, but only on mobile. Maybe it just hasn't been tested on Firefox (or recent versions of Firefox).
- kej 4y ago
  Firefox 99 on Windows slows down but eventually gets to the next page. Except for a quick interstitial image of a current time, the next page is here if you want to pick up the story: https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football/chapter-1 https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football/chapter-1
- jack_pp 4y ago
  It actually froze my thinkpad t490 on Firefox / debian. Had to do a button hard reset

andbberger 4y ago

the sequel is also excellent

phreack 4y ago

My first thought was that the "novel about footbal" TFA was talking about simply _had_ to be 17776. And that whatever else had no chance of even being close to how mind blowing that story is. And lo, turned out to be a regular novel but by the same author. I'll go ahead and read it now, the man's brilliant.

obloid 4y ago

Thanks for posting, this is amazing!

yesbabyyes 4y ago

Fantastic. Thank you.