Comments on: The World Wide Web that could’ve been, by Apple

By: Samantha Steinwinder

Samantha Steinwinder — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:47:26 +0000

The programming language RevTalk from RunRev (www.runrev.com) was inspired by Hypercard. Has a growing user base of avid HyperCard fans. You’ll recognize the similarities.

By: Yogarine

Yogarine — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:44:38 +0000

I started programming writing verbs on MOO’s. ;-)

By: Jonas

Jonas — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:30:04 +0000

There’s actually an implementation of this which is still used in modern systems.

When developing wap-applications for cellphones you still use cards and stacks in some cases to cover specific brands.

By: Sash

Sash — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:51:42 +0000

Hypercard was also my first dev tool. I was about 13 or 14 and started digitizing our school’s library books with one of the first hand-held scanners and OCR programs. Then I used Hypercard to create an index and display them. It was more like a proof of concept project, but very fun at the time.

By: Max

Max — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:38:00 +0000

The name of HyperCards programing language was HyperTalk.

And yes, I started with HyperCard too. Even today there’s nothing the pulls you so gently into the programming and database world.

By: Twinkle Toes

Twinkle Toes — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:45:20 +0000

Sssst…don’t tell anyone. I used floppy disks too. Don’t tell anyone, they will think I am old, like Boris.

The first language I used? Hmm…I think it was Pascal.

By: Nick Sharratt

Nick Sharratt — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:49:56 +0000

I experenced HyperCard on the Macs at uni – I even wrote a small essay about it which included reference to the concept of being ‘lost in hypertext’ when you lose track of your context…a concept familiar to everyone now from the web I bet :)

first programed in BASIC on a Commador Pet (8K, 40×25 green screen – still wrote some ‘good’ games on it). Progressed to 6502 assembly language slightly, then ZX81 basic and a little Z80 assembler, only really learned ‘good’ programing on BBC model B with it’s much better BASiC and built in assembler, although I then learned all over again in Pascal at Uni, then all over again with object oriented approach with Turbo pascal, then learned yet again with DBase iV, and then SQL in MS Access…and somewhere in there I was blown away by Prologue and baffled by Lisp, dabbled with C (writing for X11 on Sun sparcs)…

Every new language/platform opened whole new vistas of opportunities and their own issues, and although the PET was first, each one after was a ‘first’ too.

By: Thom

Thom — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:03:28 +0000

I have been using Macs since 1984 and got my own in the early 90′s. It was a lot of money then. I never even looked into HyperCard. Wish I had. I started with Pascal.

By: Alex Wilhelm

Alex Wilhelm — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:50:20 +0000

Yeah, some C++ was my start, then a lil’ PHP. Still can’t code tho, just reading.

By: Ashley Steel

Ashley Steel — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:30:07 +0000

Ooh yes that reminds me. Have done a bit of ActionScript too.