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HyperCard Comes Back From the Dead to the Web
TedCHoward writes "On the heels of the recent mention of HyperCard comes the launch of a brand new site called TileStack. Cnet's Webware blog writes, 'The idea behind it is to bring old HyperCard stacks back to life by putting them on the Web, meaning you can take some of those long lost creations from the late '80s and early '90s and make them working Web apps. You simply upload them to TileStack's servers and they'll be converted and hosted for just you or the entire world to use once again... Since the service runs without Flash... TileStack is perfect for the iPhone and other devices that run on the Web.' They also have a video showing the upload process."
Yeah, something similar happened to me. I was browsing through an old file-cabinet when I found a couple of floppy disks with unreadable labels (damn cheap markers). I hooked up my old PC so I could put the floppy in so that I could see what's on it. Lo and behold, I found some old hypercard projects of mine! Strangely, though, there was one called 08May, but I quickly realized that this was just May 8. I decided to run it anyway and it made an incredibly loud banging sound and my mom got scared and said "You're moving with your auntie and your uncle in Bel-Air." I whistled for a cab and when it came near the license plate said "Fresh" and there were dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare but I thought, naw, forget it, yo holmes to Bel-Air. I pulled up to the house about seven or eight and said to the cabbie "Yo holmes smell ya later." Looked at my kingdom, I was finally there, to sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-Air.