Experiments in Hypertext

Typographically speaking, using underlines and changing the color of text for a link [1] is … um … ugly. Functional, yes. Eyecatching, yes. Asthetically pleasing … debatable. And for reading hypertext fiction (fictional stories using hypertext as a medium—and there has to be a better name) it can get downright difficult, depending upon the density of links (I've yet to come across any hypertext fiction [2] that has the density of links that any wiki [3] has; I've also yet to come across any hypertext fiction that has drawn me in, again, unlike most wikis [4]). So I spent some time writing some experimental hypertext [5] to see if I can't come up with some alternative methods for displaying links.

I've also added a new section [6] to my personal site [7] (in something like four years) to contain the various hypertext experiments I've done (so far, two).

[1] /boston/2002/08/12.2

[2] http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=hypertext+fiction

[3] http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki

[4] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiWeb

[5] http://www.conman.org/people/spc/writings/hypertext/fragment/

[6] http://www.conman.org/people/spc/writings/hypertext/

[7] http://www.conman.org/people/spc/

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