why Borges’s narrative “The Garden of Forking Paths” is often considered a precursor to hypertext and the Internet.
In this form the Garden is a hyperfictional environment. By hyperfiction we mean the use of hypertext to construct a fictional narrative. Borges and the particular story have been recognised by current hypertext theorists to be a print precursor of hypertext.The main issue of the Garden is time.n this article Moulthrop describes his hypertextual adaptation of the short story by Jorge Luis Borges âThe Garden of Forking Pathsâ. This site is itself another adaptation of the same story. However its aims and structure are different.