TheTedNelson: Another parallel format-- The 'Pale Fire' demo, fifty years late

  • Thursday, 08 August 2019 03:23
In the 1960s, in a deeply-regretted project at Brown University, I proposed to put Nabokov's novel "Pale Fire" into a screen demo, and actually got permission from the publisher-- but it was nixed by IBM. Recently British researcher Simon Rowberry has said not making that demo was a great loss. see https://www.sprowberry.com/presentation-vladimir-nabokovs-pale-fire-the-lost-father-of-all-hypertext-demos/ Nevertheless, fifty years after the Brown fiasco, Edward Betts and I finally did a "Pale Fire" demo in December 2018, and here it is-- at least working 5 August 2019, at http://perma.pub/alpha/edward/openZRe7/fulfil The links open up nicely and stay open if you like, or close if you like. It's a very nice format for "Nelson documents"-- parallel pages visibly connected-- though it doesn't use Xanadu methods. Note that you can make a portable copy of the demo by doing "Save As" with Chrome or Safari.

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