Storytelling as Collaboration and Community: Designing an Interactive Multi-Author Environment for Hypertext Fiction

While web technology has become pervasive, it might be argued that it has made few fundamental changes in the way we live. The graphical browser and the emergence of corporate entities brought the Web to the forefront of the Internet and brought the Web to the masses. But popularity, along with proprietary and corporate influence changed the goals and focus of online life. In many ways this change in goals resulted in the Internet failing to fulfill much of its initial promise.

Holstrom, Christopher Ryan. University of Washington-Seattle (2002). Books>Web Design

Vannevar Bush and the WWW

Early Internet visionary Vannevar Bush is brought back to life for a fictional interview. Bush discusses how his early vision of the 'memex' might provide examples for today's information designers as they attempt to organize information and make it available to users.

Holstrom, Christopher Ryan. EServer (2001). Design>Information Design