ABSTRACT
The development of the modern computer gave birth to a brand new form of narrative: digital storytelling. Video games emerged during the era when computer technology was still very much the domain of research scientists, professors, and a handful of graduate students. Since the days when it was first called Advanced Research Project Association Net (ARPANET), the Internet has matured as a major medium of distribution. The development of the Internet as a major new medium, new forms of digital distribution, and the enormous popularity of video games and other kinds of digital entertainment are having a profound impact on the Hollywood entertainment establishment. Not counting the great variety of video game consoles, four other significant platforms were introduced during the 20 years between the late 1970s and the late 1990s. All of these technologies laser discs, Compact Disc-Read Only Memory (CD-ROMs), Compact Disc-interactive (CD-is), and DVDs were used as vehicles for interactive narratives, some more successfully than others. Hollywood entertainment.
