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This is right up my alley and I never heard of it till now! HyperCard was a wonderful creative tool at the time. (I’m pretty sure Bill Atkinson has stated on m
by pmarreck 8y ago
This is right up my alley and I never heard of it till now!
HyperCard was a wonderful creative tool at the time. (I’m pretty sure Bill Atkinson has stated on more than one occasion something along the lines of “If only I added hyperlinks!”)
- rgovostes 8y agoHyperCard had hyperlinks, in the sense that a card can link to another card, and even to another stack. It was networking that was omitted, really.
- plufz 8y agoWikipedia definition: HyperCard is a software application and development kit for Apple Macintosh and Apple IIGS computers. It is among the first successful hypermedia systems predating the World Wide Web.
- pmarreck 8y agoYou could just link to a stack on a network share, but yeah. trivia: Macintosh aliases, starting with System 7 I believe, were able to link to network shares and automount them if they weren't yet mounted
- jandrese 8y agoHyperCard was just ahead of its time. Back in 1987 he would have been more or less inventing the wheel with all of the networking stuff, especially on a Mac. By the time the Internet took off Apple had long since relegated Hypercard to life support. That said, I'm not sure a Hypercard based Internet would have been ideal either. It would have been a security nightmare and AFAIK Apple never released a PC version.