Text at the outset of this new millennium remains our traditional source of content, of meaning.

One shouldn't disagree if one understands that text in the twenty first century means words and the other elements which construct hypermedia: sound, image, and whatever may follow in the not too distant future. To think otherwise would be to isolate ourselves from the technology around us and its influence on expression.

Overall, the mistake may not be in mourning the passing of the "Golden Age" of text based hypertext, but to think of Golden Ages in general. The nostalgia the Web supports is not that of Golden Ages or precious pasts; it is a nostalgia of popular culture, of iconicity, of entertainment as discourse. It is a place where we are always in the past. When we realize this, we no longer have to worry over how new developments in electronic writing threaten old norms. Instead, we can reevaluate old norms within the framework of new technology. We can begin to think of how to write nostalgically from a different angle, one of juxtaposition, one outside referentiality, one which is neither the end nor the beginning of anything, but rather is just writing as we know it.