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Eastgate Systems, Inc.
Company typecorporation
IndustryMacintosh software industry Windows software industry Electronic publishing
FoundedDecember 1982
HeadquartersWatertown, Massachusetts
ProductsMac OS, Mac OS X and Windows software
Websitehttp://www.eastgate.com/

Eastgate Systems is a publisher and software company headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts. Eastgate, is a pioneer in hypertext publishing and one of the best known publishers of hypertext literature, publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry hypertexts. Its software tools include: Storyspace, a hypertext system created by Jay David Bolter, Michael Joyce, and John B. Smith in which much early hypertext fiction was written, and Tinderbox (application software), a tool for managing notes and information. Eastgate's chief scientist, Mark Bernstein, is a well-known figure in hypertext research.

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  1. Hypertext connects disparate data: extract a world of data, layer by layer by Henry Fersko-Weiss, March 1st, 1989, Lotus Publishing Corp. Quotes Mark Bernstein: "In the next five to ten years," says Eastgate Systems' Bernstein, "hypertext will determine the way programs interact with people."
  2. Gutermann, Jimmy, 'Hypertext Before the Web,' Chicago Tribune, April 8, 1999 ("Thanks to some successful early attempts at hypertext fiction that Eastgate published (most notably by Michael Joyce and Stuart Moulthrop) and a front-page Robert Coover essay in the "New York Times Book Review," Eastgate and Storyspace were closely associated with the emerging field of literary hypertext.")
  3. Murphy, Kim, 'Electronic Literature: Thinking Outside the Box,' Los Angeles Times, July 24, 2000; Zack, Ian, 'A Novel Approach to Literature,' The Roanoke Times, July 16, 1999.
  4. Landow, George P. (1992). Hypertext: the convergence of contemporary critical theory and technology. The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 40
  5. Strange fiction by Jimmy Guterman , 05.23.97, Forbes.
  6. Tinderbox 1.2: multipurpose app sparks, stores, and shares ideas., MacWorld, September 1, 2003.
  7. Denison, D.C., 'Onsite,' Boston Globe, December 29, 2001.

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