{"id":18610,"date":"2017-08-11T14:28:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T18:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18610"},"modified":"2017-08-12T19:15:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T23:15:52","slug":"hypercard-on-the-internet-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/11\/hypercard-on-the-internet-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"HyperCard on the Internet Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.archive.org\/2017\/08\/11\/hypercard-on-the-archive-celebrating-30-years-of-hypercard\/\">Jason Scott<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=14985604\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blog.archive.org\/2017\/08\/11\/hypercard-on-the-archive-celebrating-30-years-of-hypercard\/\">\n<p>Flourishing for the next roughly ten years, HyperCard slowly fell by the wayside to the growing World Wide Web, and was officially discontinued as a product by Apple in 2004. It left behind a massive but quickly disappearing legacy of creative works that became harder and harder to experience.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Hypercard, we&rsquo;re bringing it back.<\/p>\n<p>After our addition of <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/softwarelibrary_mac\">in-browser early Macintosh emulation<\/a>&nbsp;earlier this year, the Internet Archive now has a lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/hypercardstacks\">emulated Hypercard stacks<\/a> available for perusal, and we encourage you to upload your own, easily and quickly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pschiller\/status\/896047776131198976\">Phil Schiller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pschiller\/status\/896047776131198976\"><p>Celebrating #HyperCard (I created some insane stacks in the day&#8230;)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As an Apple II user, I was surprised that Macs didn&rsquo;t have BASIC built-in. I ended up liking <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HyperTalk\">HyperTalk<\/a> fine, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HyperCard\">HyperCard<\/a> was a great environment for writing little programs, making quick user interfaces, and building presentations and databases.<\/p>\n\n<p>Update (2017-08-12): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/schwa\/status\/896155333596332032\">Jonathan Wight<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alanstorm\/status\/896187798385905664\">Alan Storm<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cdespinosa\/status\/896148061436600320\">Chris Espinosa<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EggFreckles\/status\/896363272584257536\">Thomas Brand<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbum\/status\/896410840730968065\">Bill Bumgarner<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tripofmice\/status\/896168290325643264\">Mouse Reeve<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Scott (Hacker News): Flourishing for the next roughly ten years, HyperCard slowly fell by the wayside to the growing World Wide Web, and was officially discontinued as a product by Apple in 2004. It left behind a massive but quickly disappearing legacy of creative works that became harder and harder to experience. 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