25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web

An interesting history lesson with some great quotes:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/

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"I missed the mark with HyperCard," Atkinson lamented. "I grew up in a
box-centric culture at Apple. If I'd grown up in a network-centric culture,
like Sun, HyperCard might have been the first Web browser. My blind spot at
Apple prevented me from making HyperCard the first Web browser."

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"As the saying goes, war is too important to be left to the generals,"
Nelson wrote. "Guardianship of the computer can no longer be left to a
priesthood."

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"Most systems available today use a single database," Tim Berners-Lee
explained. "This is accessed by many users by using a distributed file
system. There are few products which take Ted Nelson's idea of a wide
'docuverse' literally by allowing links between nodes in different
databases."

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"HyperCard was very compelling back then, you know graphically, this
hyperlink thing," Wei later recalled. "I got a HyperCard manual and looked
at it and just basically took the concepts and implemented them in
X-windows," which is a visual component of UNIX. The resulting browser,
Viola, included HyperCard-like components: bookmarks, a history feature,
tables, graphics. And, like HyperCard, it could run programs.

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