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                           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] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog: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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