But this requires programming in time-based and socially-accessible media. While I have argued that most of the recognised 'advanced' characteristics of networked text are simply long-standing characteristics of literature, surrounded, as it were, by gaudy, html <BLINK> tags, there are certain potential aspects of text which are more specific to its implementation in networked, programmable media. These characteristics remain textual, but they are aspects of an art of language which still for the most part awaits realisation. They are, in a sense, proper to their media in that they would be all but impossible to implement in traditional forms of publication - a node-link hypertext can become a book and vice versa, but text generators require programmatons.