This post is possibly going to be the shortest I am going to post on here…
This week’s reading by Landow, once again touches upon the concept of hypertext, more specifically fictional hypertext. The essay technically describes the advantages such technology brings to modern fiction, allowing the reader to create their own stories through the use of multiple variables that allows replay capability.
Just as with any hypertext reading that I had done in the past, the ideas being introduced are completely understandable, but I still found myself somewhat foreign to the idea. I was unable to link the technology being described to any sort of technology I have come across in my life. It was not until I have actually googled examples that I was confronted with this, a sample of everything the author mentioned in his essay.
Surprisingly, I have come to turns that this is the first time I have come across hypertexts. I don’t know about my peers, if this is something that predates our known awareness of the nineties, or maybe it is due to my different cultural upbringing.