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Hypercard, Hypertext and User as Designer/Programmer
Hypercard, Hypertext and User as Designer/Programmer
What is Hypercard?
- Wikipedia - Hypercard
- Wikipedia - Hypertext
- Video - The Computer Chronicles (1987)
- Video - Why HyperCard is so F*ing great
- Bill Atkinson introducing HC - 1987
- Bill Atkinson reflecting 2012
How-to
- Hypercard Beginner's Guide
- Getting Started with Hypercard IIGS
- Hypercard Installation and New Features (1998)
Writings
- Retro Mac Computing - The Long View - Hypercard
- As We May Think by Vannevar Bush - from The Atlantic, July 1945
- Techniques for Stack Development - Jeanne DeVoto
Examples
- Voyager Company hyperbooks
- Whole Earth Catalog
- Game - The Manhole
- Video - Dr. Who Database
- Video - If Monks had Macs
- Internet Archive Hypercard collection
Aspects of Hypercard
Hypertext and Scripting
- Hypertext allowed the first creation of branching and responding text (links!) and thus was a precursor to the World Wide Web
- Hypercard "cards" can be considered to be analogous to web pages, and "stacks" to websites