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From: svanegmo@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Stephen van Egmond)
Subject: Re: Interactive Fiction, new thread
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 06:42:30 GMT
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In article <32ABF50E.B23@acy.digex.net>, David  <dobenson@acy.digex.net> wrote:
>  In particular, I seek other Webfolks who build the pages, and try to 
>figure out whether it's: 1) art; 2) a good link; 3) the next coming 
>for novels.

Um, yes.

History suggests that no medium entirely supersedes another.

Personally, I think hyperfiction has some interesting capabilities when it
comes to presenting a story.  For an excellent example, look at

http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~plragde

It's the personal page of one of the professors in the Programming 
Languages group here at UW.  Sort of diary-ish.

Where I think hypertext fails as a storytelling medium is in the 
"which-way-book" approach to writing: pure prose followed by a small 
number of hyperlinks to possible paths through the essentially linear 
text, "What next?" but with fewer verbs.

/Steve
