Eastgate Systems Explained

Eastgate Systems, Inc.
Type:corporation
Location:Watertown, Massachusetts
Industry:Macintosh software industry Windows software industry Electronic publishing
Products:Mac OS, Mac OS X and Windows software

Eastgate Systems is a hypertext publisher and software company headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts.[1]

Eastgate is a pioneer in hypertext publishing and electronic literature[2] [3] [4] [5] and one of the best known publishers of hypertext fiction.[6] It publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry hypertexts by established authors with careers in print, as well as new authors. Its software tools include Storyspace, a hypertext system created by Jay David Bolter, Michael Joyce and John B. Smith,[7] in which much early hypertext fiction was written.[8]

Eastgate's chief scientist, Mark Bernstein, is a hypertext researcher,[9] and has improved and extended Storyspace. He also developed new hypertext software, Tinderbox,[10] a tool for managing notes and information. Storyspace was used in a project in Michigan to put judicial "bench books" into electronic form.[11]

History

Eastgate Systems was founded by Mark Bernstein in 1982 and developed hypertext tools.[12] Joyce and Bolter launched Storyspace in 1987, at the first annual Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) conference on Hypertext.[13] Joyce presented afternoon, a story as a case-study for the tool; the work is widely considered the first work of hypertext fiction[14] and was published by Eastgate in 1990.[15] In 1995, Eastgate published Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl.[16]

Robert Coover highlighted Eastgate as "the primary source for serious hypertext" in The New York Times Book Review in 1993,[17] a quote which still features prominently in Eastgate's tagline.[18] Between 1993-6, Eastgate published eight issues of The Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext.[19]

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References

Notes and References

  1. http://www.eastgate.com/FAQ.html FAQ
  2. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-9202545_ITM Hypertext connects disparate data: extract a world of data, layer by layer
  3. 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.")
  4. 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.")
  5. Book: Rettberg, Scott. Electronic literature. Polity Press. 2019. 978-1509516810. Cambridge, UK. 68–69. 1038024013.
  6. 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.
  7. Landow, George P. (1992). Hypertext: the convergence of contemporary critical theory and technology. The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 40
  8. https://www.forbes.com/1997/05/23/strange.html Strange fiction
  9. News: Denison . D.C. . OnSite (column) . Boston Globe . December 9, 2001 . But how far can you push hypertext? That's the question that inspires Eastgate’s chief scientist, Mark Bernstein.... During most of the ’80s and ’90s, Bernstein devoted his energies to pushing the boundaries of hypertext fiction..
  10. https://web.archive.org/web/20110516191154/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-107525662.html Tinderbox 1.2: multipurpose app sparks, stores, and shares ideas.
  11. Pamela Samuelson . Spring 1992 . Some new kinds of authorship made possible by computers and some intellectual property questions they raise . University of Pittsburgh Law Review . 53 . 685 . Note 45 . Interestingly, Storyspace is now being used as a hypertext system for a project in the state of Michigan to put judicial 'bench books' into electronic form. .
  12. Web site: Eastgate FAQ . Eastgate Systems.
  13. Book: Bolter . Jay David . Joyce . Michael . Proceeding of the ACM conference on Hypertext - HYPERTEXT '87 . Hypertext and creative writing . 1987-11-01 . https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/317426.317431 . New York, NY, USA . Association for Computing Machinery . 41–50 . 10.1145/317426.317431 . 978-0-89791-340-9.
  14. Johnson . Steven . Why No One Clicked on the Great Hypertext Story . en-US . Wired . 2023-10-29 . 1059-1028.
  15. Web site: afternoon, a story ELMCIP . 2023-10-29 . elmcip.net.
  16. Web site: Eastgate: Patchwork Girl . 2023-10-29 . www.eastgate.com.
  17. News: Coover . Robert . 1993-08-29 . HYPERFICTION; And Hypertext Is Only the Beginning. Watch Out! . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-10-29 . 0362-4331.
  18. Web site: Eastgate: serious hypertext . 2023-10-29 . www.eastgate.com.
  19. Web site: Eastgate: Hypertext Fiction . 2023-10-29 . www.eastgate.com.
  20. Web site: reVIEWs: Koskimaa . 2023-03-06 . www.altx.com.
  21. Web site: King of Space . September 4, 2023 . Eastgate.
  22. Book: Malloy, Judy . Its name was Penelope . 1993 . Eastgate Systems . Inc Eastgate Systems . 1-884511-07-4 . Cambridge, MA . 39034345.
  23. Book: Guyer, Carolyn . Quibbling . 1996 . Eastgate Systems . Inc Eastgate Systems . 1-884511-08-2 . Cambridge, Mass. . 47933641.
  24. Web site: Victory Garden Sampler . 2023-03-14 . www.eastgate.com.
  25. Web site: Rebooting Electronic Literature, Volume 2: Kathryn Cramer's "In Small & Large Pieces" . 2024-02-23 . Rebooting Electronic Literature, Volume 2: Documenting Pre-Web Born Digital Media . en.
  26. Web site: Those Trojan Girls . Eastgate.

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