Someone Recreated HyperCard, Apple’s 80s Programming Tool Invented on Acid - Motherboard
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ViperCard’s old school look and faithful recreation of the HyperCard experience bring back days when users were encouraged to play with their new machines rather than simply follow their glossily-rendered instructions. In a 2016 interview, HyperCard creator Bill Atkinson said that the point of the tool was to “give programming abilities to people with a passion, rather than trying to give programmers a passion.”
This revelation, Atkinson said in the same interview, was inspired by an acid trip. It’s a long story that begins on “a park bench outside [Atkinson’s] house” after having “taken some really nice acid.” During this trip, Atkinson thought about the parallels between stars and streetlamps, and “saw the curvature of the planet.” Eventually, he had a realization that boiled down to average people engaged in different areas of knowledge—music, biology, poetry, chemistry, etc.—being able to talk to each other. Really, information being able to link to other information.
“If you can facilitate the connection between different bodies of knowledge talking to each other, then there’s a trickle-up effect that maybe you’ll develop some wisdom on the planet,” Atkinson said in the interview.
With ViperCard, a tiny bit of that original acid-tinged vision for computing is back.
J’ai adoré HyperCard... Il faut que je vois si ce ViperCard peut utiliser des vieux stacks.
#HyperCard #Histoire_informatique