Re: 25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web

On 5/31/12 2:37 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> An interesting history lesson with some great quotes:
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> 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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Yep!

What goes around, comes around. Nothing under the sun, created by man, 
is new. That said, we are endowed with an eternal ability to innovate :-)

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