Chapter 3 Blog Post

Chapter Three of Electronic Literature, written by Scott Rettberg, is about hypertext fiction. Hypertext fiction is defined as, "The first form of electronic literature" and "a bridge between the literary experimentation of the late twentieth century and the cultural shifts accompanying the the move to networked computing". Hypertext was historically relevant due to it's use as a modern and post-modern platform. Though many study it, not many people today utilize it. Looking into hypertext, I found an article called "The Secret History of Hypertext" which I found really interesting. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/in-search-of-the-proto-memex/371385/