# Nine Billion Branches

> creative work by Jason Nelson

**Wikidata**: [Q132204621](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q132204621)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/nine-billion-branches

## Summary
Nine Billion Branches is a 2017 electronic literature work (digital poetry) by Jason Nelson presented as a web-based creative work and application. It was published in an online art gallery and implemented using web technologies including HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), PHP and an item listed as Q2005.

## Key Facts
- Title: Nine Billion Branches; author: Jason Nelson.
- Genre: electronic literature — specifically described as digital poetry.
- Publication date: 2017.
- Instance types: creative work, web page, and application.
- Published in: an online art gallery.
- Programming languages used: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), HTML, Q2005, and PHP.
- Elmcip identifier: 13083.
- Language of the work: English.
- Wikidata description: "creative work by Jason Nelson."

## FAQs
### Q: What is Nine Billion Branches?
A: Nine Billion Branches is a web-based electronic literature work (digital poetry) created by Jason Nelson and released in 2017. It is presented as both a creative work and an application hosted as a web page.

### Q: Who made Nine Billion Branches?
A: The work was authored by Jason Nelson. It is catalogued under elmcip_id 13083.

### Q: What technologies does Nine Billion Branches use?
A: The work is implemented using web technologies listed as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), HTML, PHP and an item recorded as Q2005. It is presented as a web page/application.

### Q: Where was Nine Billion Branches published?
A: Nine Billion Branches was published in an online art gallery in 2017.

## Why It Matters
Nine Billion Branches stands as a documented example of contemporary electronic literature and digital poetry produced for the web. As a creative work that is also an application and a web page, it illustrates how literary practice can be realized through web technologies (HTML, CSS, PHP and the item recorded as Q2005). Its publication in an online art gallery situates it within digital art and web-native presentation contexts rather than traditional print. The inclusion of an elmcip_id (13083) indicates it has been catalogued within electronic literature resources, which supports discoverability and scholarly reference. For researchers, artists, and technologists interested in the overlap of web programming and literary form, Nine Billion Branches is a concrete, dated instance (2017) of that intersection and of how web-based languages are used to produce and deliver digital poetic experiences.

## Notable For
- Being an electronic literature work by Jason Nelson categorized specifically as digital poetry.
- Being published as a web-based creative work and application in an online art gallery in 2017.
- Implementing the work using web technologies: HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), PHP, and an item listed as Q2005.
- Being catalogued in the electronic literature record with elmcip_id 13083.

## Body
### Overview
- Title: Nine Billion Branches.
- Creator: Jason Nelson.
- Described on Wikidata as a "creative work by Jason Nelson."
- Language of the work: English.

### Genre and Classification
- Primary genre: electronic literature.
- Sub-genre/format: digital poetry.
- Instance types recorded: creative work, web page, application.

### Publication and Cataloguing
- Publication date: 2017.
- Published in: an online art gallery.
- Catalog record: elmcip_id 13083.

### Technical details
- Implemented programming languages: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), HTML, PHP, and Q2005.
- Presented as a web page and application, indicating it is a web-delivered software/artifact.

### Identifiers and Metadata
- Elmcip ID: 13083.
- Wikidata short description: "creative work by Jason Nelson."

### Contextual notes
- The entry links creative practice with web technologies by recording implementation languages and the web-based publication venue.