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I'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
by twopoint718 17y ago
I'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.