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Alan Liu

Hypertext Literature
A Brief Timeline

This page contains outline notes for a lecture (Last revised 11/3/04 )

Brief, Representative Timeline of Hypertext Literature


  1940-50's -------------> 1960 -------------> 1980 -------------> 1990 -------------> 2000

Concept of Hypertext
(WW II)

 Theory of Hypertext
(Computer Lib, Poststructuralism)		 Early Hypertext Practice & Criticism WWW
Flash
Director
[etc.]
Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think" (1945)

Jorge Luis Borges, "Garden of the Forking Paths" (1941)

Ted Nelson,
Project Xanadu,
Literary Machines, 1980

Literary Machines

Roland Barthes & Jacques Derrida (as read by George Landow)

Hypercard works
(e.g., Deena Larsen, Marble Springs)

Storyspace (Eastgate Inc.)

Michael Joyce,
afternoon, a story (1986)

Shelley Jackson,
Patchwork Girl (1996)

George Landow,
Hypertext (1992)

[toward new media ---------->

   Espen Aarseth,
   Cybertext (1997)

   M. D. Coverley
   Califia (2000)

   Ed Falco,
   Self Portrait as Child    with Father (1999)

   Talan Memmott
    Lexia to Perplexia
    (2000)

   Stephanie Strickland
   V (2002)

   ELO (1999)]