If the first two class sessions focused mostly on hypertext, it is because the widespread aestheticization of digital forms of expression, distinguishing between hyper- and inter-media, separating fiction from interactive art, and so forth, in the end invariably fails to account for the fundamental question raised exemplarily by hypertext: namely, how to explain the anachronism of claiming precursors and forefathers while by the same token presenting a radical departure. It is a curious side-effect of positing such a paradigm shift that the logic of the break is applied to itself, and suddenly, with hindsight, it appears as if everyone knew it all along: old media as new media. Surely that's not good enough - but what allows us to draw the line?