{"id":2285,"date":"2012-04-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=2285"},"modified":"2021-04-14T12:44:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T11:44:22","slug":"so-beautiful-it-still-makes-me-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/so-beautiful-it-still-makes-me-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"so beautiful it still makes me cry"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>HyperCard a tool so beautiful it still makes me cry. Although I say \u201cused\u201d\u2026 Sam, Richard, Kris and Stephen were our proper programmers\u2026 I tended to join in excitedly, but mainly made black &amp; white graphics or icons.<\/p>\n<p>By 1997 we\u2019d made what you\u2019d call a CMS ( Content Management System ) in HyperCard. It made making web sites easy. So easy that school kids did it, in their Mosaic browsers and even won awards. I remember one class project that was a site about World War II, that just grew and grew. You could start to see what all the fuss about HyperText was<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theotherblog.com\/Articles\/2012\/04\/11\/prograph-back-in-the-day\/#\">Prograph \u2013 Back in the Day | Tom Smith\u2019s: theOTHERblog<\/a> Gone so <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120813101612\/http:\/\/www.theotherblog.com\/Articles\/2012\/04\/11\/prograph-back-in-the-day\/\">archive link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tom Smith&#8217;s post is mostly about Prograph, which I know nothing about. I still use SuperCard, a HyperCard clone, most days.<\/p>\n<p>HyperCard keeps popping up in unexpected places. It is the reason I got interested in ICT (other than producing worksheets that pupils could actually read in the age of bandas).<\/p>\n<p>The idea of a &#8220;Programming for Poets&#8221; application is still very attractive. There have been a few tries, <a href=\"http:\/\/tilestack.com\/\">TileStack<\/a> was an attempt to recreate HyperCard online with JavaScript. I still wonder why Apple, 1. abandoned HyperCard and 2. have not made a HyperCard for either OSX or iOS. Maybe this <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/04\/13\/apple-patents-a-tool-allowing-non-developers-to-build-apps\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Apple Patents A Tool Allowing Non-Developers To Build Apps | TechCrunch<\/a> will come to fruition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HyperCard a tool so beautiful it still makes me cry. Although I say \u201cused\u201d\u2026 Sam, Richard, Kris and Stephen were our proper programmers\u2026 I tended to join in excitedly, but mainly made black &amp; white graphics or icons. By 1997 we\u2019d made what you\u2019d call a CMS ( Content Management System ) in HyperCard. 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