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"Literary devices and techniques?" Do you mean... hyperlinking? Because there's nothing else that's been done online that wasn't done previously in other medium
by zimbabwe 17y ago
"Literary devices and techniques?" Do you mean... hyperlinking? Because there's nothing else that's been done online that wasn't done previously in other mediums.
- twopoint718 17y agoI'll offer Michael Joyce as an example: http://faculty.vassar.edu/mijoyce/ http://faculty.vassar.edu/mijoyce/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afternoon:_a_story http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afternoon:_a_story I think you could consider this a use of hyperlinking before the web. And if you count "As We May Think", then it is a use way before the web. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think
- zimbabwe 17y agoVery cool stuff! I knew of Joyce, though I've never read Afternoon (I'm worried it won't meet expectations), but As We May Think I'd never heard of before.
- twopoint718 17y agoAfter I heard about him, I went to my campus library and checked out "Afternoon." It comes on one 3.5" floppy disk and couldn't be removed from the reading room. So I sat down (at the only machine left with a floppy drive) and clicked through it for about an hour. It is certainly very different from a usual novel. For starters you have no idea how long it is. Hyperlinks aren't highlighted as we've come to expect and so I have to admit that I was doing some Myst-style random clicking at times. You'll often get back to the same paragraph but through a different path, these paragraphs are usually written in such a way that they would make sense by any path that you'd arrived at them.