Netprov is explicitly related to improvisational theatre, and also has a lot in common with live action role-playing games.
Rob Wittig, one of netprov's originators, was also involved in Invisible Seattle, a novel created in the early 1980s by a group of "literary workers" who gathered stories from Seattle residents, in part using an early online bulletin board system.
[2][3] An early example of netprov was Rob Wittig's Grace, Wit, and Charm (2011), which centred around a fictional company that offered services to people who wanted help making their online avatars more successful.
[6] Scott Rettberg notes that netprov is told in real-time, using social media, and are collaborative and interactive in the sense that readers can join in as participants.
[7] Wittig and Marino have also contributed chapters about netprov to a number of scholarly anthologies on electronic literature.