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Tangentially related, but if you haven't read 17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future, it's an excellent example of using hypermedia to tell a story (and isn't really about football): https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football

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Jon Bois is a genius, and this is the main example I return to when tempted to think that hypermedia is just a gimmick. It takes a special type of creativity to not just make it feel "tacked on." Perhaps the light jazz and dated look of the google maps visuals just meld well with the nostalgia evoked by the content of the story. The text alone would probably work as a good scifi short, but the additional material makes it so much more dramatic.

Well that's gotta be by far the most depressing utopia I've ever seen put into text.

I'd really like to read this, but for some reason the font size keeps increasing, which eventually crashes the page. It happens on Firefox and Chromium, on Linux and Android. Strange.

I think it's on purpose.

It didn't crash for me and after I revisited the site, it shows a different page which allows to select the chapter.

Ah, I see. Yeah, I could eventually load it in Chromium. PEBKAC :)

Has there been any word on the third part of the series? 20020 came out then allegedly 20021 was coming out "soon", but didn't seem to ever materialize.

The last update on 20021 was from April 2021 when Jon announced it was delayed (with no specific information on when it would be ready): https://www.reddit.com/r/Jon_Bois/comments/mwmo0i/programmin...

That was about as fun to read as Blindsight by Peter Watts.

Hah yes, I think it evokes the feel of Peter Watts but also qntm / Sam Hughes even more!

Mostly in the constant "what the ___ am I reading/watching/thinking right now"

That was beautifully told. Thank you for sharing

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