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Eastgate Systems is a publisher and software company headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts. Eastgate is a pioneer in the hypertext publishing and electronic literature [1][2][3] and one of the best known publishers of hypertext fiction,[4] publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry hypertexts. Its software tools include: Storyspace, a hypertext system created by Jay David Bolter, Michael Joyce, and John B. Smith[5] in which much early hypertext fiction was written,[6] and Tinderbox,[7] a tool for managing notes and information. Eastgate's chief scientist, Mark Bernstein, is a well-known figure in hypertext research[8], and has improved and extended Storyspace as well as developing new hypertext software.
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- Tinderbox, a content assistant for managing, analyzing and mapping notes in a hypertextual environment
- Storyspace, a hypertext writing environment
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- ^ Hypertext connects disparate data: extract a world of data, layer by layer by Henry Fersko-Weiss, March 1st, 1989, Lotus Publishing Corp. Quotes Mark Bernstein: "In the next five to ten years," says Eastgate Systems' Bernstein, "hypertext will determine the way programs interact with people."
- ^ Gutermann, Jimmy, 'Hypertext Before the Web,' Chicago Tribune, April 8, 1999 ("Thanks to some successful early attempts at hypertext fiction that Eastgate published (most notably by Michael Joyce and Stuart Moulthrop) and a front-page Robert Coover essay in the "New York Times Book Review," Eastgate and Storyspace were closely associated with the emerging field of literary hypertext.")
- ^ Coover, Robert, 'And Hypertext Is Only the Beginning. Watch Out!' New York Times Book Review, August 29, 1993 ("...the primary source for serious hypertext fictions today is Eastgate Systems, the New Directions of electronic publishing and the supplier of the popular Storyspace software in which most of the hypertext authors I know about have written.")
- ^ Murphy, Kim, 'Electronic Literature: Thinking Outside the Box,' Los Angeles Times, July 24, 2000; Zack, Ian, 'A Novel Approach to Literature,' The Roanoke Times, July 16, 1999.
- ^ Landow, George P. (1992). Hypertext: the convergence of contemporary critical theory and technology. The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 40
- ^ Strange fiction by Jimmy Guterman , 05.23.97, Forbes.
- ^ Tinderbox 1.2: multipurpose app sparks, stores, and shares ideas., MacWorld, September 1, 2003.
- ^ Denison, D.C., 'Onsite,' Boston Globe, December 29, 2001.
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