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Killing the Literary: The Death of E-lit

Illya Szilak | Posted 05.19.2013 | Books
Read More: E-Lit, Experimental Writing, New Media Art, Hypertext, Luminous Airplanes, Digital Humanities, Paul La Farge, Mark Amerika, Luminous Airplanes Book, E-Literature, John Cayley, Books News
Illya Szilak

I recently had the opportunity to ask Paul La Farge some questions about his intrepid foray into e-lit. For those interested in the question of why e-lit remains marginalized, Paul's answers are particularly revealing.

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HyperCard: The Original Bridge Over the Digital Divide

John Pavley | Posted 08.02.2012 | Technology
Read More: Macworld, Hypertext, Apple, Apple Macintosh, html5, Digital Divide, Apple Hypercard, Bill Atkinson, Hypercard, Technology News
John Pavley

The original motivations that inspired Bill Atkinson to create HyperCard are more relevant than ever: In the future there will be two kinds of people: Those who use computers and those who are used by computers.

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The Definition Of An eBook

The Wall Street Journal | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Book Publishing, Quark, Pagemaker, Print, Andries Van Dam, Hypertext, Ebooks, Oxford, Hyperlink, Brown University, Macs, Ereaders, Books News

An electronic book (also e-book, ebook, digital book) is a text- and image-based publication in digital form produced on, published by, and readable o...

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From The Pentagon To Monty Python: The Internet Turns 40

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: Soviets, World Wide Web, 40th, Pentagon, Mosaic, Bulletin Board, Spam, Net, Netscape, Nuclear, China, Intergalactic Computer Network, Cold War, Britain, Personal Computer, England, Internet, Cern, 40, Malware, Apple, Pc, Russia, Usenet, Russians, Technology, Computer, Gopher, Space Race, Steve Jobs, Www, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Darpa, Lovely Spam, Monty Pythons Flying Circus, Swords Into Plowshares, Botnet, Soviet Union, Birthday, Wonderful Spam, Html, Sputnik, Trojan, Hormel, Arpanet, Spiced Ham, Ucla, Chris Weigant, Virus, Spam Spam Spam Spam, Apple II, Hypertext, Steve Wozniak, World War II, Monty Python, Worm, Happy 40th Birthday Internet, Compuserve, Lan, Milnet, Technology News
Chris Weigant

Technology has grown by such leaps and bounds since 1969 that it's hard to conceive how things were before we all had access to computers.

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