Learning something new

I knew I've been given credit for coining the term "hyperdrama," though it has recently deteriorated into a label for extreme melodrama, but I didn't know this:

"The digital revolution has proved another challenging technological development which has drawn a lot of attention; through new means of communication, it has allowed geographically dispersed individuals to connect and interact, eventually brining about what has come to be called 'digital theatre'. Though experiments in this field began in 1966, as Marek Holensky, the Polish researcher, mentions in his book Art and the Computer, it was Charles Deemer who pioneered this kind of theatre when he presented the first digital play ever on the internet in 1985. It was a groundbreaking kind of play that went beyond the traditional concept of theatre, allowing its receivers to become co-authors of the work and introduce their choices and suggestions as to the course of the action and construction of the events. It was also a very special kind of play in that it could only be accessed on the internet."

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Interesting. Wonder if it's true that this ATHEMOO production via the University of Hawaii was the first. Actors sat at computers at various locations and typed their lines, which appeared online, in this hyperdrama, though the term wasn't used by me or anyone else yet. No one knew quite what to call the form. In the beginning, I called mine a mouthful, "simultaneous-action theater." TAMARA, the first to gain a significant audience, was called "a living movie" -- and the producers registered the term as a trademark! Why didn't the first sonneteer think of that?