Waxweb began life as a film whose subject matter included psychic insects, family secrets, ghosts and a time-travelling beekeeper. Since 1991 it has spread out to become an illustrated, multi-authored text, a cd rom and a website containing text, video, sound, images and the preparation, through the VRML scripting language, for virtual three dimensional navigation - perhaps one might say that Waxweb really is a multi media endeavour!

Some quotes from 'Waxweb: Image Processed Narrative', a fairly long, and towards the end enthusiastically unintelligable essay written by David Blair, Waxweb's creator to contextualise it within the theme of 'Interactivity':

".....users have the ability to make immediately
visible links from any word to any other word,
add comments to any page, and also to create
their own pages (or many pages!), thus adding
to the narrative of the main Waxweb."

"Waxweb (is) a constructive hypertext... i.e. a
hypertext that can not only be read, but also
written by its readers..... (David Blair) asked
25 writers scattered in the US, Japan, Germany,
Finland and Australia, all connected by the Internet
and equipped with the software, to add writings
onto the base layer (...) I expected that the new
contributors would act almost as an analogic
poetry machine, creating unexpected narrative
connections and material through their processes
of reading/writing.

David Blair then goes on to outline the way that he extended access and authoring ability to anyone with a connection to the 'net:

"Registered guests receive a password, and access
to the authoring tools at the site. Registration is
necessary in part for security reasons, and to
encourage responsible participation in the site....."