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1. Colossal Cave Adventure

   The first work of interactive fiction was Colossal Cave Adventure. Its first iteration was developed in 1975-76 by Will Crowther, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based programmer who was part of the team that developed ARPANET, the original network infrastructure on which the Internet is based (Montfort, 1997, p. 86), and subsequently expanded by Don Woods (1977). Crowther turned his programming skills towards a game about cave exploration after his divorce in order to entertain his children when they visited him (Nelson, 2001, p. 343). Crowther had been a spelunker in his past, helping to map a network of caverns in Kentucky (Jerz, 2007). He used that experience as the basis for the network of caves described in Adventure. The game itself provided a relatively simple experience of navigation and puzzle solving. Players attempted to retrieve objects from within the cave environments, and to win by completing their collection—a kind of textual geocaching.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 18.02.2011 - 15:06

2. Card Catalogs and Electronic Books

   The Card Catalogs (1976-1981; first exhibited in 1978) are collections of text and images on 3x5 cards.  Each catalog is a tray of cards containing 50-200 cards structured  by dividers that key the cards using small pictures or word phrases.  Although they can be read sequentially, they were meant to be non-sequential works that combine words and pictures so that neither are the words descriptions of the pictures nor are the pictures illustrations of the words. For example, the Woodpile  consists of 165  nodes of photos drawings or text, keyed by small photos and drawings.  Each node stands by itself but also functions as a molecular unit that, when combined with  other cards, builds up a story. As opposed to a linear book where the reader focuses on the front cover and normally proceeds linearly from there, the reader approaching a card catalog like The Woodpile sees the top of the entire work and is encouraged to begin at any place.

   Judy Malloy - 25.09.2011 - 21:30

3. Tale-Spin

   Tale-Spin

   Scott Rettberg - 08.01.2013 - 20:07

4. Poemas V2: Poesía Compuesta por Una Computadora

   A volume of computer-generated poetry printed in offset which replicates the original printed listed paper obtained when printing-out the poems in an IBM.

   Scott Rettberg - 11.07.2013 - 12:00

5. Poema de Computador

   "Computer Poem" appears in print in Barbosa's theoretical-practical collection A Literatura Cibernética 1 (1977).

   Daniele Giampà - 17.04.2015 - 10:06

6. Ninho de Metralhadoras

   Published as servilivres, Musa Speculatrix series, published in “Qorpo Estranho” Brazilian magazine nº 2, 1976

   Alvaro Seica - 29.04.2015 - 11:54

7. Flight to Canada

   Flight to Canada

   Muhammad Shahid - 03.10.2021 - 19:17