30-plus years of HyperCard, the missing link to the Web
The year of HyperCard's unveiling, the San Francisco-based television show Computer Chroniclesproduced a program about the software. The hosts of the episode very quickly identified the program's inspiration.
"HyperCard is based upon hypertext," Gary Kildall told Stewart Cheifet. "It's a concept that was developed by Ted Nelson and Doug Engelbart in the sixties. The basic idea is this: if we're trying to do research on any kind of a subject, the subject matter exists in all kinds of different places. It can be books, magazines, tape recordings, Compuserve, and if we can somehow link all this stuff electronically, so that if we click on Beethoven, we can all of a sudden jump from one to the next... that's what hypertext is all about."
FIVE COOL HYPERCARD STACKS
1. Myst is probably the most famous project in HyperCard history. The Cyan company released the game in 1993, but it took about two years for Cyan's founders Rand and Ryan Miller to construct the elaborate landscapes that addicted a generation. The CD included 40 minutes of music, 2,500 images, and an hour of QuickTime movies.
The year of HyperCard's unveiling, the San Francisco-based television show Computer Chroniclesproduced a program about the software. The hosts of the episode very quickly identified the program's inspiration.
"HyperCard is based upon hypertext," Gary Kildall told Stewart Cheifet. "It's a concept that was developed by Ted Nelson and Doug Engelbart in the sixties. The basic idea is this: if we're trying to do research on any kind of a subject, the subject matter exists in all kinds of different places. It can be books, magazines, tape recordings, Compuserve, and if we can somehow link all this stuff electronically, so that if we click on Beethoven, we can all of a sudden jump from one to the next... that's what hypertext is all about."
FIVE COOL HYPERCARD STACKS
1. Myst is probably the most famous project in HyperCard history. The Cyan company released the game in 1993, but it took about two years for Cyan's founders Rand and Ryan Miller to construct the elaborate landscapes that addicted a generation. The CD included 40 minutes of music, 2,500 images, and an hour of QuickTime movies.