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Few technological advances have impacted the way we live our lives as has the Internet. This breakthrough is considered to be a brainchild of a relatively small group of young, gifted electronics hobbyists in the mid- to late-70's. I argue, however, that this group was not constructing a new paradigm out of nothing; rather, they were expanding upon a way of thinking that leading writers of fiction in the first half of the 20th century had already articulated. I will show how many of the techniques, subjects, and themes of James Joyce, William Faulkner, and Jorge Luis Borges stream-of-consciousness, memory, multiple universes anticipate recent technological developments and in the process form an intertextual dialogue with contemporary hypertext.Air Force Inst of Tech Wright-Patterson AFB OH is the author of 'Discovering Hypertext with Joyce, Faulkner and Borges', published 2000 under ISBN 9781423537892 and ISBN 1423537890.
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