to repurpose parabolic missile algorithms''This game is meant to be played in the Twine editor. Please import the HTML file as a story on Twinery.org.''
''When you're finished, you can delete this passage and have the poem start at whichever passage you like. Then export and you're good to go!''
Vannevar Bush's "memex" was an imaginary desk computer. It allowed the user to create hyperlinks between documents, whether they be novels, poems, notes, or records. This Twine project explores this idea. It is pre-populated with passages but none of them yet have links to one another. By turning words in the passages into links, you can create an associative web poem.
Which words should link to which passages?
Where do you start?
''Linking in Twine''
The poem consists of 26 passages labeled A-Z. You can create links between the passages in the editor. See the "routing" example from (link: "The Twine Cookbook.") [(goto-url: 'https://twinery.org/cookbook/starting/twine2/creatinglinks.html')]what data are you trained oncommands made inert, inked on paperthreads stitched by the browserred string and push pinned messagesfidgety fingers, digital interactiona winless conversionyou must be discretewho wove together the circuitryinput / outputAND / ORAs We May Thinkmining a rich veinthere is no analogueputting the think tank supercomputer to work"job creators" replace with generatorsinjecting 2008 reminders into the feedi only tried to zoom in, but my heart is yoursa story broadcast for 24 hours, persisting only in flash memoryundersea currents carry your files to the cloudthe dead pixel blind spots remainskeuomorphic buttons on a flat panela personal history inscribed with lightningcan you emulate the way you werethe perfect manipulation of symbolsheld together by sinew