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In March 1995 when the web was still quite young, I wrote an academic research paper on two types of hypertext links. That theoretical paper lead to a practical hypertext fiction, which consisted of two parts. Both are presented here in their original format, made up simply of text and links, without graphics, and without the shell of an interface. The experience is meant to be immersive, so that the user may focus on the text, the links, and the relationships created by his/her own choices as he/she navigates through the text. Hypertext, in early 1995, was one of the most linguistically compelling aspects of the internet. From a browser standpoint, too, hypertext was perhapsthe central function of the World Wide Web (even the name "Web" itself referred directly to the international mesh of hypertext links between documents). Hence the following fiction(s?).
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