User:Astenaba/My Boyfriend came back from the war

Basics
My Boyfriend Came Back From the WarThe hypertext project is located at the website or you can also try this that will get you directly to the project It is a project that was created by Olia Lialina. It is an online story about a girlfriend reflecting on her experience with her boyfriend returning from war.

Structure
When you enter the first website, you are greeted with a variety of links that have different versions of the project. Each version is slightly different but the content overall is the same. It can be difficult to navigate at first, but as you continue through the site, you get the idea of the website.

Content of Site
This project tells a poetic story as the user travels through the text on the screen. It is an example of netart It is called "My Boyfriend Came Back from the War" because it is telling the story of a girlfriend explaining what happened in her relationship with him after his trip to the war. The graphics are very simple, all black and white. Yet the content is almost haunting. The site works cohesively in that every time the user clicks on one of the links, the story continues and even though the user is clicking on links at random (because you do not know what the result will be) the story can still continue, because all the boxes of the project work together so that it still makes sense to the reader.

This is a link to a screen capture of the website. It shows what the interface looks like.

Other
This site shows all the text from the site in a blog format. This allows the viewer to simply read the text as opposed to having to click through the site with graphics to be able to get the story.