[OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

[Richmond]

On 02/11/2012 10:57 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Alejandro Tejada wrote:
>
>> So, I find rather revealing that today so many developers
>> are mostly unaware of the existence of HyperCard.
>
> I'd wager a majority of computing professionals these days don't even 
> know who Vannevar Bush was, or Project Xanadu.  Kids...
>
> :)
>

And how many people realise that Ada Lovelace was the Mother of them all.

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