Sunday, December 31, 2017

A turning point

On March 5, 2002, almost 16 years ago, I received an email out of the blue with the subject heading "Your Pioneering Websites." It begin:
I just read your article, "What is hypertext".  It is a great article 
that verbalizes many things that I had not seen clearly stated in print 
before.

I am the archivist at a digital library,  Could we offer you a free home 
for your writings?  You could get them off geocities, have no ads 
popping up and not be restricted by time / space limitations.  We also 
do digital streaming, which might be of interest, given that you are a 
screenwriter.
The library was Ibiblio at the University of North Caroline. Obviously I took her up on the offer, and my literary archive has been there ever since. A gift of the gods, giving me more exposure than I would have had otherwise. This, and benefits from hosting the first comprehensive website for playwrights and screenwriters, defined my career over the past two decades.

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