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Kishi
Takayoshi Kishimoto. Creative Direction, Film Direction, Interactive.
Sequential Email Novel - Re: 待ってる (1997)
For Nippon Telegraph and Telephone / NTT Ad
An online story in a form of email correspondence. A part of an interactive story experiments produced for NTT in very early days of the internet.
Once you register your email, you would receive two strangers’ emails as Bcc directly to your inbox in real time for two weeks. It’s like you receive them by mistake, and you’re accidentally wiretapping their email conversation. The story is about a man and a woman met online and getting to love each other through the email exchanges.
We modified the email servers to send emails according to pre-set schedule. The pace of the emails started one email exchange in a few days, but is gradually getting more frequent like 5 emails in 10 minutes at the climax of the story. This real time posting created an illusion as if these strangers actually exist, so you would be kept in suspense.
Even though the limited numbers of people experienced it, more than 80% of the audience has sent a positive comments to the online bulletin board provided.
The project can be read on Internet Archive.
http://web.archive.org/web/19990218203209/http://ad.ntt-ad.co.jp/12Stories/9708/index.html