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| last edited by BillSeitz on Aug 10, 2008 11:13 pm |
Aug'02 interview with Bill Atkinson about Hyper Card. "I have realized over time that I missed the mark with Hyper Card," he said from his studio in Menlo Park, California. "I grew up in a box-centric culture at Apple. If I'd grown up in a network-centric culture, like Sun Microsystems, Hyper Card might have been the first Web browser. My blind spot at Apple prevented me from making Hyper Card the first Web browser." Hyper Card was conceived and created in the 1980s, almost a decade before the explosion of the Internet. "I thought everyone connected was a pipe dream," he said. "Boy, was I wrong. I missed that one."... Atkinson still uses Hyper Card every day. His address book is a big Hyper Card stack, and he has written a number of custom programs to help him with his photography and to maintain his website.
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