“It's a lot of work, but it's a lot of fun.”
This paper offers a close reading of Jon Bois’ 17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future as an example of “feral hypertext,” situating the work within both the history of literary hypertext and broader postmodern narrative traditions.- doi
- 10.1145/3800935.3830887
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- “It's a lot of work, but it's a lot of fun.”
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- Sam Brooker, Chris Boucher
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- https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830887
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- CC BY 4.0
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- This paper offers a close reading of Jon Bois’ 17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future as an example of “feral hypertext,” situating the work within both the history of literary hypertext and broader postmodern narrative traditions.
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- Hypertext; literary studies; postmodernism
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- 2026-09-14
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- HT '26: 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext, London, United Kingdom, September 14–18, 2026
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- CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Hypertext / hypermedia ; • Applied computing → Media arts ; • Applied computing → Publishing ;
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- Sam Brooker, Chris Boucher
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- ACM Reference Format: Sam Brooker and Chris Boucher. 2026. “It's a lot of work, but it's a lot of fun.”: Rediscovering Hypertext in Jon Bois’ What Football Will Look Like in the Future. In 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext (HT '26), September 14--18, 2026, London, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA 5 Pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830887
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