Storyspace

The Storyspace system from the University of North Carolina was developed and later marketed by Mark Bernstein and his company Eastgate Systems. Storyspace is specifically designed for reading and writing interactive fiction. Michael Joyce had great influence on the design of the system and was the first author of hyperfiction for Storyspace. His work Afternoon consists of 539 nodes and 915 links, which makes it one of the larger hyperdocuments, not counting encyclopedia.

Storyspace supports a graphical display of the structure of the hyperdocument, including composite nodes and links going in and out of composites. This ability to manipulate the structure of a hyperdocument graphically makes Storyspace suitable for interactive and collaborative writing. Collaboration was initially somewhat hindered by the (only) hardware and software platform: the Apple Macintosh. Nowadays Storyspace is also available for Windows on the IBM-PC.

An increasing number of hyperdocuments for Storyspace is becoming (commercially) available, ranging from children's fiction to historical works and encyclopedia.