Could anyone let me know what these following terms refer to:

GUI
Memex
Vannevar Bush
Instrumental Text
Peter/Wert/Lolly/Nausicaa?

~Thanks for any help.

off the top of my head, the first three:

gui -> graphical user interface, re: the bug

memex -> memory supplement thingy, re: as we may think

vannevar bush -> some dude, re: as we may think

Pert/Wert/Lolly/Nausicaa are from Afternoon

does anyone know what texting, storyspace, and compiler refer to.

thanks

Storyspace - a computer program that made it possible to create interactive texts, such as Afternoon, by using hyperlinks. Hyperlinks in fiction put more power in the hands of readers, by personalizing their experiences and making it all about their forming meaning & connnections.

What about unfiction and slime mold--I remember them vaguely.

Unifiction: http://unifiction.com; creative writing, puzzle solving, team building with role-playing. Uses several forms of media to pass clues to players who solve puzzles in order to win peices of the story.

Slime mold: emergent, bottum-up behavior in the game of life? Single cells congregate to form a community, at the core of emergent behavior is a set of simple rules that lead to complex results, the sum ends up being smarter then its individual parts.

texting: refers to onesixty.com a poetry magazine designed for delivery through text messaging

instrumental text-middle space between interactive fiction and games-mentioned in greater detail in the interview with Stuart Moulthrop-link Nov24 on blog

compiler-mentioned in The Bug-a program that decodes another program's high-level language into a language that can be recognized by the computer so that the program can be executed

Vannevar Bush-wrote As We May Think during WWII which mentions inventions for work and play and which was written for a popular audience

Ute, anyone?

...and Johanna?

Ute is from the bug, the night systems admin that Ethan is romantically involved in for one night. Johanna I think is supposed to be Joanna, Ethan's girlfriend of four years who eventually winds up cheating on him and leaving him in the Bug.