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HyperCard is like Concorde: it was replaced by less powerful alternatives (eg PowerPoint) that took away any hope of mass success and left the remaining audienc
by bonaldi 6y ago
HyperCard is like Concorde: it was replaced by less powerful alternatives (eg PowerPoint) that took away any hope of mass success and left the remaining audience too small to be viable.
That's why later successors like LiveCode have to aim themselves at niches of the original HyperCard audience, like those who want an easy dev tool. Which is nice, but misses the tool-for-everyone dream of the original
- silvestrov 6y agoPowerPoint is the 25%. The other 75% was Netscape Navigator as 1) distributing info on the web is so much better than on floppies. If you were not in the loop, it was very difficult to get hold of interesting Hypercard stacks. 2) Hypercard was fixed-screen-size, whereas web used whatever screen size you had. 3) The web was cross-platform and in color. Hypercard was mac only and b/w only.