The first time I typed onMouseOver, I was 14…
Did you know that HyperCard is still sold by Apple? HyperCard! Christ. I was trying to explain it to my brother the other day; he’d never even heard of it. How about you? Did you go to a computer/math/science magnet junior high school too? Did you use HyperCard to create interactive games based on *cough*Dragonlance*cough* ? Sigh. Apparently now, HyperCard can use embedded QuickTime movies and can be exported to the web. And can have color. Them’s the upgrades. I used this thing like maybe 11 years ago and that’s all that’s new. It’s version 2.4.1. The page on Apple’s 2003 website suggests hosting it on WebStar, an OS 9 webserver.
This all comes because John Sculley thinks HyperCard should have been used better by Apple. Gee. Ya don’t say. It was great technology for the time, if they’d just given it network ability it may have lasted longer. Yet another thing Apple did right before anyone else. And then figured wasn’t that important. Can you say Newton?
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big ups to the HC. w00t. i’d give a shoutout to comp/math/science jr highs, but we went to the same one, so its kinda pointless. and my return of the jedi hypercard beat the pants off of your dragonlance shite. all egging aside, hypercard really was a wonderful model for the web, as far as a GUI goes. w00t, indeed.