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[hasufin]

Hypercard

Waaay back in the 80s, I got to use one of the fancy new Apple computers - a Macintosh. An LC, as I recall: there were a few earlier models I ended up using later for programming, but the LC was the first for me.

That was my first exposure to a graphical user interface, and honestly still the best. Everything was simple and intuitive. I recognize now that the interface wasn’t as powerful as it could be, but it started from a good foundation, and I think it could have gone to better places.

And while those computers were by modern standards complete dinosaurs, I honestly don’t recall ever feeling limited. They just worked. Maybe there was a philosophy of underpromise and overdeliver, I don’t know - I just recall not finding them frustrating in the way modern computers can be.

Even the word processing applications were simple, straightforward, and solid: you put stuff on the screen, you saw what it would actually look like, and if you wanted you printed it out.No weird hidden values, no crazy formatting you couldn’t find, nothing to make you tear your hair out: just WYSIWYG. I’m a professional writer now, I work in JSON and XML with DITA, and yet I mostly just crave the elegant simplicity of being able to make text on the screen and know that’s what the final product will look like.

To top it all off on the Macintosh there was this incredible program: Hypercard.

At first blush it seemed overblown. It was just, um index cards? On a computer? (I have never in my life seen the point of index cards. They’re just small pieces of paper so you can’t write as much stuff.)

But hypercard was so much more. In truth, it had the potential to be everything. It was a true implementation of the hypertext concept. Sure, your base element was the card. But the card could have text, graphics, sound - you could even program it to do things. It had a programming language. And you could link the cards; not just “here is the next card in the deck” but if you clicked on one spot you’d go to one card, another spot would take you to a different card... you could set it up by conditions, by timing, etc.. You could have the cards record information, too. It was an unspeakably flexible tool. Some people used it for presentations and walkthroughs. Some people dreamt further afield. I spent many hours playing with a hypercard train set: someone had made a deck that emulated a model train set. Yes, something inherently nerdier than an actual model train set.

The quintessential Hypercard deck was a house. It was part of the tutorial. The idea was, you used the drawing tools and linked cards to create a walkthrough of a house. Doing so would help you understand the power of the tool, that it wasn’t simply linear but rather you could truly model a house that way - and very accurately, if you were patient and had some artistic skill. I recall the one I built was very much like my parents’ house (being what I had experience with) but I also made it like an adventure game: there were things you could do that would take you to your grave, there were things you could break; I tried to make a cat you could chase but didn’t have the skill.

Nostalgically I am missing Hypercard. I don’t know of anything since which offered the kind of freedom to create, nor the elegant interface, of that tool. Sometimes I wonder: so many people have such fond memories of it, and it was so useful, surely we could recreate it? But I think it would take someone with a very firm hand on the rudder. Someone to hold to the vision of freedom and simplicity, and keep people from making it too complicated. I’m not sure I can see it happening, but I can dream.

[stholtzmann]

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Rules:  Always post the rules. Answer the questions and write 10 (or 11!) new ones. Tag 11 people and link them to the post. Tell the person who’s tagged you that you’ve answered their questions.

1. What is your favorite breed/type of dog or (and?) cat? Corgis and ... no, I can’t pick, all cats are marvelous. The only ones I really can’t deal with are the ones that have been bred till their faces have sunk into their jaws. aaaaagh whyyy

2. If you could master one creative art medium, which would you want it to be? Writing!

3. What do you do to pass the time when you’re riding in the backseat on a car trip? I normally drive :D If I’m not driving I might look at the scenery, talk to people, read...

4. Which singer has your favorite voice? Hmmm. Hard to say. Maybe Faye Wong or Janelle Monáe.

5. Similarly, if you had to pick the voice of one animated character to be stuck with as your voice for the rest of your life, which would it be? Stitch. (I’m actually just having trouble thinking of a good answer. But it would be hilarious. Maybe the Witch of the Waste from the dub of Howl’s Moving Castle? Because that’s LAUREN FUCKIN’ BACALL.)

6. What other language(s) do you speak? Mediocre Japanese and mediocre Mandarin Chinese.

7. If you could have one exotic animal as a pet (and it would be healthy and the animal was happy and liked you too), what species would it be? Aaaaahhhh too many choices. Pallas’ cat/manul, snow leopard, caracal...

8. What is your favorite flavor of fruit juice? I like most fresh juices pretty well. If we’re talking aguas frescas, my favorites are watermelon, strawberry, and pineapple.

9. What is your favorite type of technology that’s outdated/not made anymore/obsolete, one that you miss? Huh, I can’t think of any physical hardware that isn’t genuinely better, but I thought Hypercard was a cool program (I made a little Chinese-teaching program with it). Unfortunately I learned to use it just as it became obsolete. I also have a fondness for retro-style videogames (PLAY READ ONLY MEMORIES!!! PLAY IT!!!!! It lets you choose your pronouns!) and chiptunes.

10. Which would you rather have (imagining you have the budget for either one), an apartment or a house? A house. I know that makes me an Old, but I hate sharing my walls with other people. I want to control my own environment--plant stuff if I want to, paint my walls purple, install stuff, be really loud, whatever.

I don’t have the brainpower to write more questions :|

Tagging: YOU if you want to do it! Seriously, I’m terrible at keeping track of this stuff, and I know I’m repeatedly probably tagging some people who don’t like and never do these memes, and probably failing to tag people who’d like to.  (If you WANT me to tag you more often/at all, just let me know!)