[NTLK] HyperCard Dreaming

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| HyperCard, What Could Have Been
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Wired has a [1]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."

Links:
    1. http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2002/08/54370
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Received on Tue May 27 13:59:02 2008