Blast from the Past — Hypercard. After MacPaint, and the revolution in desktop publishing, came design for "new media" or "interactive multimedia" or something along those lines. Hypermedia offered non-linear linking, integrated graphics and audio, and a simple scripting language. Of course, there was no WWW yet so these "stacks" lived locally on your hard drive.
Similar to the ideas proposed decades earlier by Vannevar Bush in his classic essay, "As We May Think".
Bill Atkinson, one of the core Apple staff, was behind Hypercard's development. In 1987 he wrote "The art of creating software that is usable by individuals is a communication skill. It is not a programming skill".
Here is a recent blog post about Hypercard.
Link: Hypercard/Wikipedia
I had my eye on the Apple Lisa selling for about $10,000 and then along came the Macintosh in 1984. I remember the superbowl adverstisement.
Here is the inspiring Stanford commencement speech (15 mins) where Jobs talks about typography, business innovation, and life. And here is Steve in the 1990s being a bit nasty about his competition, Microsoft. Ouch. In the clip he points out a truth about technology: that *culture* must be part of it. You can also read some more of his views at the Smithsonian website.
I guess today its all about the second-generation of Apple. Jonathan Ive and the iPod and such. Read more about the early days at Apple.
Link: Apple Inc.
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