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Given so many HyperCard-like product exists - why is it that none have taken off and become common like HyperCard once was? What is missing or has changed?
by throwaway4good 2y ago
Given so many HyperCard-like product exists - why is it that none have taken off and become common like HyperCard once was? What is missing or has changed?
- d0mine 2y agoThe World Wide Web. HyperCard is an early hypermedia system predating the web.
- jecel 2y agoHyperCard itself would not have had the role it did if Apple hadn't bundled it with every Mac. This is sort of like the Basic that came with older computers - any language that you had to get separately would get a tiny fraction of the popularity of the default option.