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Hypertext
An annotated collection of 2 books on hypertext, spanning 1944 to 1979. Featuring works by Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
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Jorge Luis Borges, 1944 · Sur
Before anyone had built a computer network, Borges had already imagined its topology. "The Garden of Forking Paths" (1941) describes a novel that is also a labyrinth — a structure in which every decision branches into al…
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino, 1979 · Einaudi
Calvino wrote what may be the first novel that behaves like a hypertext system. The book is structured as a series of interrupted beginnings: the reader starts one novel, is diverted to another, begins that one, is diver…