[OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Sat Feb 11 15:17:50 EST 2012


On 02/11/2012 09:42 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote:
> After reading about this recent legal bout
> for the interactive web:
> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/1248234/texas-jury-strikes-down-mans-claim-to-own-the-interactive-web
>
> I found revealing the way in which HyperCard
> keeps appearing as the first inspiration for the
> web browser as we know it today:
>
> From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViolaWWW#HyperCard
>
> His interest in graphically based software began with HyperCard which he
> discovered in 1989. Gillies and Cailliau quote Wei on this discovery:
> "HyperCard was very compelling back then, you know graphically, this
> hyperlink thing, it was just not very global and it only worked on Mac...and
> I didn't even have a Mac" (p. 213). Only having access to X terminals, he
> (in 1990) created the first version of Viola for them: "I got a HyperCard
> manual and looked at it and just basically took the concepts and implemented
> them in X-windows[sic]"
>
> So, I find rather revealing that today so many developers
> are mostly unaware of the existence of HyperCard.
>
> These days, when someone study Information technology,
> DO NOT receive classes about the historical background
> of their profession?
>
> I am curious, because I have to study the historical
> background of Design when studied it, so many years ago...
>
> Why Information Technology would be different?
>
> How could be helpful to be a complete ignorant
> of the origins, history and development of your
> own profession?

Well said.

>
> Al
>
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