HyperCard, What Could Have Been

Posted by kdawson on Sunday May 25, 2008 @12:13AM from the wild-cards dept.

bobwrit sends us to Wired for a look back by the author of HyperCard, Bill Atkinson. Quoting: "HyperCard is a programming environment that can create applications as diverse as utilities and games by linking 'cards' arranged into 'stacks.' Commands are executed through a natural-language scripting language called HyperTalk... The software has been phenomenally successful and highly influential. But Atkinson feels that if only he'd realized separate cards and stacks could be linked on different people's machines through the Net — instead of cards and stacks on a particular machine — he would have created the first Internet browser."

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Re:Yeah yeah yeah by obsolete1349 · 2008-05-25 00:21 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Wow Kdawson... should have known. Didn't check who posted it until after I saw the year of the article: 2002.

I hate this guy and I wish I could filter his "news" posts (revenue stream) out of my view for eternity.