Ars Technica has a wonderful writeup today about Apple's HyperCard, which would soon be celebrating its 25th birthday if it was still around. HyperCard was a wonderful tool; it provided a way for ...

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In case you haven't noticed, old software never dies, it just moves to the web. Consider Oregon Trail or the latest (and infinitely more useful) example – HyperCard. For the youngins out there, ...

Twenty-five years ago today, HyperCard was released at Macworld Expo Boston. Apple's software construction kit for the rest of us began shipping on every new Mac as of August 11, 1987; you could also ...

HyperCard was amazing, especially when we remember what computing was like in 1987. It was certainly the first popular hypermedia program on the market. It combined database features in "cards" that ...

The assembly nature of Hypercard as well Apple handing it off to Claris is what hurt it in the long run. Claris tried to make money off of Hypercard but since all that was need to make the free ...

Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

Today is the 30th anniversary of the introduction of HyperCard, a system for building interactive media. HyperCard featured database features, form-based layouts, and a programming language called ...

Here's one for the ... more experienced Achians among us One of my clients has a series of old HyperCard stacks to catalog his impressive book collection. He's moving to an Intel Mac and that seems to ...

HyperCard, the graphical hyperlinked Mac app that influenced the invention of the Web, was invented by Apple engineer Bill Atkinson after an acid trip 30 years ago this weekend. Now the Internet ...