A curated list of web sites of the old-school: mostly non-commercial and all hand-made, survivals of the Web As It Once Was. And sites that preserve the spirit of it.
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The Prufrock Papers
Subtitled 'A Hypertext Resource for "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"', a creative use of hypertext as a medium for explicating the intertextuality of Eliot's classic early 20th century poem. Requires frames, works best in Netscape 3.0 or higher.
date added: 2024-11-10
tags: poetry hypertext
253: a Novel for the Internet in Seven Cars and a Crash
"This site is the original 1990s encoding of the prize-winning hypertext novel 253: A NOVEL FOR THE INTERNET IN SEVEN CARS AND A CRASH. The internet version and the book 253 THE PRINT REMIX went on to win the Philip K Dick Award for Best SF Novel not published in hardback." Add, may I add, this site is totally awesome and you should check it out for sure. A great use of hypertext as a literary medium.
date added: 2023-01-15
tags: literature hypertext art scifi
The World Wide Web
Describes the WorldWideWeb (W3), a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents.
date added: 2022-11-22
tags: hypertext internet web
The Electronic Labyrinth
When hypertext was a cool new literary medium (1993 or thereabouts)
date added: 2022-04-15
tags: literature art writing hypertext
Arachnophilia Home Page
Download Paul Lutus' Arachnophilia HTML editor and read about the 'careware' philosophy. First released in 1996, still being maintained as of 2020.
date added: 2022-01-10
tags: software hypertext