That line of thinking provided a launching point for quite a few MFA creative writing projects from English grad students trained by the academy to think of hypertext in Landow's terms. The content embodied in Patchwork Girl is as valid as ever, but the text is wedded to a pre-jurassic interface that looks silly when compared to web browsers. The unfamiliar, clunky interface overpowers the text. Further, even the Windows version forces me to think like a Mac user . Despite the calm e-mailed reassurances of the publisher, I couldn't get Patchwork Girl to run on WindowsNT, which runs on all the computer labs at my school.
Hypertext exists in time , perhaps more so than any other medium.
The allure of the empty spaces which so captivated the pioneering hypertext author are not nearly as attractive to the average hypertext user . But our texts are not ideal. We are not ideal readers, and we do not teach in ideal conditions. Intrusive design smothers content Works Cited Birkerts, Sven. The Gutenberg Elegies .