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Technological advances have always influenced the way thoughts have been fixed, preserved, and transmitted: Think of cuneiform writings, hieroglyphs on papyrus, or the invention of the printing press. These days, the “postmodern” approach in contemporary fiction is characterized by acceptance of alternative views, lack of certainty, and reluctance to accept a given reality, and mirrors a changed world-view compared to the straightforward outlook of an ever-progressing development for the better. This is in line with a constructivist understanding of reading and writing a novel. It is not easily achieved in traditional linear writing. Now, hypertext mark-up language—also known as html, the computer-based “language” of the Internet—has the potential of changing the way that literature, especially novels and stories, is composed. It will be argued that the nonhierarchical html code is particularly suited to further a constructivist understanding—and creation—of literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]