One of the main takeaways that I got from of chapter 3 by Scott Rutberg\u00a0 was that\u00a0 technological advancement\u00a0 has\u00a0 allowed the genre \u00a0of hypertext fiction \u00a0to develop and evolve. From our class on Monday, we established that Jorge Luis Borges\u2019 story \u201cGarden of Forking Paths\u201d \u00a0published in 1944 ,even though itself was not a hypertext fiction, served as inspiration for later hypertext fictions. One example of a hypertext fiction that used Borges\u2019 story as inspiration\u00a0 was Staurt Moulthrop\u2019s Victory Gardens published in 1992. Rutberg describes that Victory Gardens was a hypertext fiction with multilinear narrative structures and multiple potential outcomes, similar to Tu\u2019ui Pen fiction novel in the Garden of Forking Paths. This grand undertaking of hypertext fiction was only made possible with the advancement of\u00a0 technology and different software. At this point in 1992, most hypertext fiction were published by Eastgate publishers and used Storyspace as their software of choice . As technology developed, so did the possibilities for hypertext fiction.\u00a0 It was now possible for hypertext text to become \u201cplayable media\u201d with the invention of the web. Moulthrop describes this idea of hypertext fictions now being\u00a0 ‘playable media\u201d instead of conventional point and click hypertext fiction. \u00a0As mentioned in this chapter, with the invention of the web it was no longer necessary to be published by Eastgate publishers and it allowed these hypertext fictions to be overwritten and changed.<\/p>\n
The hypertext fiction, Olia Lialina\u2019s My Boyfriend Came Back from the War, that we were assigned for today\u2019s readings was the first hypertext fiction to be published on the web. This hypertext fiction, for me, in a way demonstrates how the pictures and gifs help us understand the underlying context of the hyperfiction novel. My body-Wunderkammer published in 1997, \u00a0was another hypertext fiction assigned to us.\u00a0 This\u00a0 hypertext fiction highlighted the multilinear component of hypertext novels. In this hypertext fiction when you clicked on a body part, it took you to page with a story about that particular body part. Then some specific words were hyperlinked and\u00a0 depending on the word you clicked on, it would take you to a page of another story.\u00a0 Lastly, I believe that both\u00a0 Olia Lialina\u2019s My Boyfriend Came Back from the War and my body-Wunderkammer demonstrate the hypermedia elements that developed due to technological advancement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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