Some while back I posted a comment here suggesting that there's some sort of similitude between web pages which make prominent or extensive use of "interactive" graphic elements--javascript, Flash--and real-life (as in you can touch it/hold it in your hands/smell it/lick it real) "pop-up" books, citing the website Fine Words Butter No Parsnips as an example expression of a common impulse; perhaps what that is is simply novelty . . . .

But whatever the case a bit later Jesse Pesta, one of the perpetrators of Fine Words Butter No Parsnips, read my remarks--yikes people besides me and my goldfish actually visit this site!--and apparently just to complicate matters sent me a link to "It's a Wonderful Internet," which is designed, using Flash animation, as a "virtual" pop-up book (though the site uses an audio narration, which real pop-up books don't have). (The story is a rather silly pastiche of the film It's a Wonderful Life . . . .)