JDBolter : Storyspace is a standalone hypertext writing system. It was developed by Michael Joyce, John Smith, and myself, and is now being further developed by Mark Bernstein of Eastgate Systems. It never aspired to Nelson’s vision of a global networked hypertext system. (The World Wide Web is the fulfillment of that vision, although in a way that Nelson did not anticipate and of which, I believe, he has disapproved.) Storyspace is a system for creating, editing, and displaying small - to medium- sized hypertexts. It has never had more than a few thousand users. However, I’m proud to say that some of the truly original and important hypertext fictions (including Michael Joyce’s own afternoon, Stuart Moulthrop’s Victory Garden, Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl, and many others) were conceived and executed in Storyspace. The system was designed to support hypertext fiction in particular, although it can also be used for organizing and writing fiction and non-fiction intended for print. (I have used Storyspace to write or revise three of my own books.) Storyspace provides more facilities for writing and editing (it includes a dynamic map of the structure of the links) than for the high-quality display and reading of the eventual hypertext. Many users of Storyspace now choose to export their hypertexts to html format in order to make them available. Although Storyspace is capable of incorporating graphics and digitized video, it has principally been used for verbal hypertexts, and frankly, this emphasis on the word puts Storyspace at a disadvantage as we move into an era of multimedia both on and off the Web.
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