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That was cool to learn that Myst was a Hypercard deck frontended with beautiful graphics and music. My later to become wife loved the game. I bought a non-Appl
by howard941 7y ago
That was cool to learn that Myst was a Hypercard deck frontended with beautiful graphics and music. My later to become wife loved the game.
I bought a non-Apple hypercardish environment that ran on Windows 3.1 . It was my 2d year of law school and one of my professors was a huge tech advocate and for 2 credits she let me develop an interactive Will generator to produce Forida-compliant wills with all the bells and whistles the new T&E statutes allowed at the time such as an accompanying document that didn't need all of the execution formalities to dispose of certain kinds of tangible personal property, so long as the document was referenced in a properly-executed Will.
I hope educational institutions are still encouraging young people today to leverage their nerdishness into non-nerdy careers if that's what they want. As for me I did my 15 years practicing law and I'm glad to be back letting my geek flag fly although for heaven's sake people, enough with the ageism. Yall be my age soon enough if you're fortunate.
- Crinus 7y ago> I bought a non-Apple hypercardish environment that ran on Windows 3.1 . Out of curiosity, was that Asymetrix ToolBook? The original was neat and very HyperCard-ish, although for some reason they pushed later versions as an e-learning application even though there wasn't anything specific about it (e.g. some people used it to make multimedia CDs). And last time i checked it, even decades later, it has bugs that existed ever since the first version.
- arethuza 7y agoAnother HyperCard-like system was HyperNeWS - which was built on Sun's NeWS windowing system and was incredible because of the beautiful PostScript based graphics of NeWS.
- Chris_Chambers 7y agoYour long rambling comment has nothing to do with HyperCard. In fact it’s clear you’ve never used HyperCard, because it’s impossible for anyone to forget they were called stacks, not “decks”.
- nlawalker 7y ago> Myst Check out The Manhole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manhole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manhole