If you were a child of the 80s you’ll remember those old Choose Your Own Adventure books, where each page ended by giving you a choice of how you’d like the narrative to continue. (It was like a first-person RPG, just on paper...) Wired must’ve loved the Decade of Bright Colours, because they have an incredibly smart story up (a Choose Your Own-style story!) on the whole phenomenon.
The smart folks at samizdat, meanwhile, have mapped out an entire CYOA book for your graphic pleasure.
If you’d like to read the Wired story, click here.
If you’d prefer to read the samizdat story, click here.