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xvlACKNOWLEDGMENTS Annenberg/Corporation for Public Broadcasting Project, and I am grateful tothem for their support. A Mellon Foundation grant and one from Dr. FrankRothman, the provost of Brown University, enabled me to transfer the Intermediamaterials created for English and creative writing courses into Storyspace.The generosity of Daniel Russell, then of Apple Computers, made itmuch easier for me to carry out my research in the 1990s after the closingof IRIS, when my university found itself able to offer little assistance orencouragement.Since 2000 NUS has funded the web servers in New york and SoutheasrAsia on which reside the most recent descendants of materials originally createdin Intermedia and storyspace-The victorian, postcolonial Literature and.Culture, and Cyberspace, Hypertext, and Critical Theory sites-and in 2O0L-2NUS funded postdoctoral fellows and senior research fellows, who createdmaterials for the sites, including Philip V. Allingham, Marjorie Bloy, LeongYew, Tamara S. Wagner, and John van Whye. I also have to thank the hundredsof international contributors, particularly Philip v. Allingham, contributingeditor of Ihe Victoian Web, who have shared so many thousands of documentswith readers of these sites. I would like to thank peyton Skipwith of theFine Art Society, London, and Peter Nahum for generously granting permissionto include the images and text from their catalogues, thus permitting meto create the victoian web's sections on painting and the decorative arts. I amespecially grateful to the authors oftwo dozen out-of-print scholarly booksand contributors of many other victorian texts who have generously sharedtheir work with victoian web, thus making possible the victoiqn web Bookssection that explores what is happening to the forms of humanistic scholarshipin a digital age. Thanks, too, to the readers of my websites who were responsiblefor their receiving 17 million hits/page views in March2002 (95%oof them for the Victorian Web). Noysius Tay Wee Kok, head of informationtechnology at the University Scholars program, and his crew of technicianshave set up and maintained the servers in both the United States and Singaporewith the assistance of foseph Aulisi of Macktez.com.I also owe a debt of gratitude to many colleagues and students who sharedtheir work with me: Mark Amerika, f . David Bolter, Alberto Cecchi, RobertCoover, Daniela Danielle, Cicero da Silva, fay Dillemuth, Carolyn Guyer, TerenceHarpold, Paul Kahn, Robert Kendall, David Kolb, Deena Larson, GaryMarchionini, Stuart Moulthrop, and Marc Nanard kindly provided me withdraft, prepublication, or prerelease versions of their work; and CambridgeUniversity Press, Dynamic Diagrams, Eastgate Systems, MetaDesign West,