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HyperCard Gone for Good

Posted by pudge on from the i-am-shocked-shocked-well-not-that-shocked dept.

Second to Last HyperCard Goddess writes "HyperCard has finally been removed from the Apple website. Read some comments about the passing. I read about HyperCard's demise on the RunRevolution list. It's pretty sad; the unexpected part was that it remained for sale at the Apple Store for six years without an update. Although we've all moved on, we'll certainly miss it." I won't.

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  1. Re:What was hypercard? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    Essentally a gimmick. Early versions of the Mac were shipped with playing cards (the Ace of Spades with the original 128k Mac IIRC, Queen of Clubs with the 512k, Prince of Hearts with the Mac Plus, etc, etc.)

    After the Mac II, they quit with this, and there was a bit of a backlash. Some joker (no pun intended) then came out with "Hypercards", Mac-style cards soaked (supposedly) in caffeine (to reflect the improved performance over the older Macs.) These took off like wild fire. Eventually the idea was bought by Claris, then a division of Apple.

    I still have a 7 of Diamonds, goes with my Beige G3. :)

  2. Six Years? by bfg9000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's pretty sad; the unexpected part was that it remained for sale at the Apple Store for six years without an update.

    Being in the market for a new PowerBook (and waiting anxiously for new revisions), this is a truly terrifying statistic.

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  3. Sad news ... Hypercard, dead at 16 by orthogonal · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Rolodex/Programming tool Hypercard was found dead in it Cupertino, California home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss it - even if you didn't enjoy its output, there's no denying its contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

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    1. Re:Sad news ... Hypercard, dead at 16 by blackmonday · · Score: 1, Funny

      Hypercard and Stephen King on the same day, what a shame.

  4. Re:Open Source by Ann+Coulter · · Score: 2, Funny

    I would look at Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming Volume 3 Chapter 6 to find information about string searching. I bet that Hyper-Card uses a combination of algorithms in that chapter.

  5. Re:Open Source by punkass · · Score: 2, Funny

    How's that phrase go? "One man's dead technology..."

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    "Nobody owns the fucking words man." - James Dean
  6. Backdoor troll... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wow, not only are macs "only for gay people" now the computers themselves take it in the backdoor?

    I expect to see this message reposted a few times.