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Hypercard in a lot of ways is what the Web could have been. If never became as easy to create high quality freeform sites and apps as it was multimedia Hyperca
by tedmiston 9y ago
Hypercard in a lot of ways is what the Web could have been.
If never became as easy to create high quality freeform sites and apps as it was multimedia Hypercard decks and games. Hypercard changed my life in childhood, even without learning about its scripting features.
HyperStudio was pretty good too. We used that in school quite a bit.
- zackbrown 9y ago> ... what the Web could have been... If never became as easy to create high quality freeform sites and apps... You're writing as if it's too late. It's not! What the Web has going for it today are ubiquity, multimedia capabilities, and the ability to deploy applications with no end-user installation step. There has never been a platform as advanced on these three axes as the Web today. This is a really big deal. As you highlighted, the missing piece is the creation environment. If only someone could create an accessible, freeform, code-backed interaction design tool for the modern web, learning from forebears like Hypercard and Flash, and respecting/leveraging modern creatives' & engineers' tools of the trade. Sounds crazy. But that hasn't stopped us from chasing this dream at Haiku: https://haiku.ai https://haiku.ai
- jandrese 9y agoAll Hypercard needed was the concept of an network URI for a target and it could have been the web. Well, that and a version that worked on PC and Unix and a way to make the stacks available to other machines on the network. Ok, so there was a fair bit of work that would have been required, but they had a big headstart. Of course almost nobody was thinking about the Internet back in the late 80s and early 90s. Bill Gates released a book in 1995 entitled "The Road Ahead" that barely mentioned the Internet at all.
- tudorw 9y agoTed Nelson
- UncleSlacky 9y agoHis Project Xanadu is still around: http://xanadu.com/ http://xanadu.com/
- tudorw 9y agoSo glad someone else recognised the reference, there is more at http://generalcreative.com http://generalcreative.com it is very much an ongoing project, zigzag got spun into lots of zz structures, search github, also https://github.com/waywardmonkeys/udanax-green https://github.com/waywardmonkeys/udanax-green versions of udanax, the Xanadu spin off
- RRWagner 9y agoRoger Wagner here, creator of HyperStudio. Thanks for the mention!
- tedmiston 9y agoWow, that's awesome. Thanks for stopping by and creating such a wonderful program.