25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web

Re:25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web by rwhitman on Thursday May 31, 2012 @12:53AM (#4046446)

I'm thoroughly convinced that without hypercard my career path would have been very different.

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Re:25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web by disbelief on Friday June 01, 2012 @08:26AM (#4053022)

Same here! My school was fortunate enough to receive a shipment of Apple computers when I was in 7th grade. I quickly discovered HyperCard, and spent my free time the rest of that year building a "fantasy RPG" with it. Totally ugly, barely worked, only made it about 5 screens deep, but I learned to write "code" without really realizing it, and I fell in love with building.

Who knows when (if) I would have gotten into programming without HyperCard.

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Re:25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web by supertrill on Thursday May 31, 2012 @03:52AM (#4046892)

Ditto. Playing Myst while using Hypercard started totally new ways of working for me too. What was your experience & what did you make with Hypercard?

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Re:25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web by pooriaazimi on Thursday May 31, 2012 @05:14AM (#4047123)

I'm not that old, but the same is true about me and Flash. I think Flash is a bloated piece of software right now and should die (last great version was 8)...

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