I just received an email note from one student asking whether "a home page about myself, with a separate individual page for each of my friends, with links joining the two, as well as links to various sites on the web that we like, be ok?" for Part II of the lab as an example of a text of your own authorship.
My loophole wasn't intended to be quite that large. The phrase in the lab description that makes it a bit more restrictive is "originally presented as simple text." By this I meant to imply something you had written previously, not something written just to make a web page. My intent was to get you to "experience" the impact moving to hypertext has by taking something you had originally written for "linear" presentation and see how the change in medium would change your task as an author. The most obvious examples of such previously written works I would expect most of you to have on hand would be papers produced for other courses. If you have other examples of text of your authorship that meet the "originally presented" and "substantial" restrictions, however, they would be fine.