WHO CALLED IT A HYPERTEXT ESSAY WHEN THEY COULD HAVE CALLED IT A DIALOGUE TREATISE

"Gadit there's a good chance that the last time any significant number of people were actually formally engaging with the concept of Hypertext Essays was before the term 'Dialogue Tree' was even invente--"I THINK YOU MIGHT NOT BE FULLY PARSING THE GENRE OF POST THAT THIS IS

"Also what do you mean a DIALOGUE tree, it's not a "dialogue", an essay is near-definitionally and basically universally one person without really hearing back talking to an invisible audienc--" ALL HYPERTEXT IS INHERENTLY PRE-RENDERED (RE)ACTIVE CONVERSATION WITH ITS READER
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@gaditb also of course a dialogue is a very classic(al) format for one person without really hearing back talking to an invisible audience

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