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| March 01, 2007
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
Tags: apple, bill atkinson, hypermedia
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