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Is Hypertext Literature Dead?

Posted by timothy on from the 1-for-yes-2-for-no-3-to-start-over dept.

First time accepted submitter dylan_k writes "In the 1990s and early 2000s, there was a lot of buzz about ideas like 'hypertext literature' and 'electronic literature.' Nowadays, it's easier to create those things than ever before, and there are plenty of digital texts but it just doesn't seem like authors are writing any new 'hypertext' literature these days. Why?"

5 of 208 comments (clear)

  1. Re:One man's Britannica is another man's Dickens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Considering how much fiction is on Wikipedia, I think the man's question is valid.

  2. Re:crap idea by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... and discover girls

    This is /. - please explain. Are they some sort of attachment for your game controller?

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    It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
  3. Re:crap idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    To hit puberty and discover girls, go to page 23.

    To become a eunuch go to page 82.

    To hit puberty and discover unix, go to page 64.

  4. yes, yes they are. by way2trivial · · Score: 3, Funny

    for certain meanings of 'game controller'

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    every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
  5. Re:Because it is difficult by colinrichardday · · Score: 4, Funny

    1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + 32 + 64 + 128 + 256 + 512 + 1024 + 2048 + 4096 + 8192 + 16384 + 32768 + 65536 = 131071

    FTFY

    Come on, people! This is Slashdot! There is exactly one odd summand of the left-hand side, so the sum must be odd.