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HyperCard was before my time but I love learning about it. It's pretty easy to draw a line from HyperCard to the web and web apps we all use today. It's also f
by willio58 4y ago
HyperCard was before my time but I love learning about it. It's pretty easy to draw a line from HyperCard to the web and web apps we all use today.
It's also funny because the creator of HyperCard (Bill Atkinson) thought up the idea wall on LSD on a park bench: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdJKjBHCh18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdJKjBHCh18
- masswerk 4y agoThere was actually something very much in this line, from HyperCard to Web, namely the Viola WWW browser. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViolaWWW https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViolaWWW [1] Viola 3 website (archived): https://web.archive.org/web/20190428095157/http://www.viola.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190428095157/http://www.viola....
- scarface74 4y agoThere was actually a HyperCard Gopher server. I can’t find any references to it now. But extending it, was my first paid for project in the early 90s https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19266420 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19266420
- tflanigan 4y agoDo you mean a Gopher server implemented in HyperCard? (??!)
- scarface74 4y agoYes