Web-based Resources
This list will be updated as the term goes on. Please send
me your suggestions.
Web Based Fiction
- Hyperizons
- An annotated list of hypertext and interactive narrative
maintained by Michael Shumate, who has written a master's thesis on the
subject..
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- The Color of Television
- A Pynchon-esque experimental fiction by Stuart Moulthrop,
a professor of communications and hypertext theorist.
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- AMCY.COM - The Network
- The leading commercial producer of Web serials, including
- The Spot (the earliest Web serial, started in June 1995)
- The Pyramid
- Homicide: The
Second Shift
- The Web extension of the NBC Television series: perhaps
a model of the merger of TV and the Web that will happen when digital home
TV becomes a reality
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- Other Web Soaps
- Crime story
- Compare this one with Homicide
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- Welcome To The East Village
- Compare this one with The
Spot
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- Notes
on Sinking
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- Experimental fiction laid on in a grid; recommended by
Nick
Technical Resources
This list is meant to get you started writing html pages
and adding color to them. These sites also have pointers to other sites,
so look around to find the one that presents the information in the form
you are most comfortable with. Please let me know what you have difficulty
with and what you find helpful.
- A Beginner's Guide to HTML
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- HTML_quick.html
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- Publishing.html
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- Available WWW-related software
on Athena
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- The Background Sampler
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- Backgrounds
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- RGB Hex
Triplet Color Chart
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- Howto set read/write permissions on Athena
- Articles on the Web
- CMC Magazine:
Tracing the Growth of a New Literature
- Michael Shumate's picks from last year's new web fiction.
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- Zork: A Computerized Fantasy Simulation Game
- Describes how one of the first computer story games was
designed (here at MIT)..
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- As We May Think
- The original description of hypertext.
Archives, Websites, FTP sites
Interactive Fiction
Archive
Maintained by the German National Research Center for
Information Technology
Oz Group
Carnegie Mellon's Interactive Fiction Research group,
led by Joseph Bates
IC Group
Glorianna Davenport's research group on Interactive Cinema
at MIT's Media Lab
Synthetic
Characters
Bruce Blumberg's research Group at MIT's Media Lab, home
of Silas the Dog
<more to come>