... and packages appear in many forms. It began with the early hypertext designs found on the Internet and has progressed to include digital movies, interactive CD-ROM games, MOO's and MUD's, and virtual reality. The following paragraphs will briefly describe and give examples of works within each form. It is these new ... forms which have a major impact on the narrative form of writing, the most influential to date being interactive CD-ROM games. Such games as defined by Corey Hitchcock, allow the user to interact and affect either the path or the outcome of the story (Hitchcock, ... tal...

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... Bureau (ITBB) and the Information Technology Services Department (ITSD) therefore jointly produced this free-of-charge multi-media CD-ROM for the promotion of E-Commerce to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Hong Kong. This CD-ROM contains two parts: an interactive CD-ROM section and a video section. The interactive section contains ten case studies of companies which have experiences in adopting E-Commerce ... ...

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... deliver cable service. And even as growth in the US home-PC market is slowing, the next 10 years will see a boom in European sales of PCs, modems, and CD-ROM drives that could well give much of Europe rough parity with US penetration rates. In the explosive worldwide growth of the Internet as well, we can see a distinctly national quality ... ...

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... is in facilitating more appropriate learning activities so that all types of learners can be embraced, including students who are culturally diverse and those who are disabled. Videodiscs and CD-ROM programs use multiple representations of spoken words in multi-languages, pictures, and print to support student differences in linguistic and conceptual development. Many software programs, such as Windows on Science ... ...

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... like switching on the tv. The closest thing we had to the internet before the internet were BBS's, BBS stands for bulliten board system. These were used before the cd-rom was ever invented so don't worry if you've never heard of it, most people haven't. A BBS was very simple, it was simply a persons home computer running a BBS program and ... ...

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