I seem to remember the norton anthology of postmodern american fiction (phew!) saying 'afternoon' was the grandaddy. but I really don't remember anything about it, except that the original came as computer software. I checked out some of that hypertext authoring (for literature, too fancy to use the usual stuff those snobs) software once, and it seemed like too much trouble. there were lots of people bigging in up but I would think that having something accessible to readers is more important than giving authors more control over their text when writing it. surely a web app like blogger could be written now to make ht authorship easy though.
julio cortazar's 'hopscotch' is 'proto-hypertext' and can be good at times. it's only proto- because of its choose your own adventureness though.
― Josh, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link