Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "The Computer Chronicles - Hypercard (1987)" video.

  1. Apple’s marketing department could never figure it out. It didn’t fit into any conventional software categories. That kind of thing makes certain management types nervous.
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  2. I recall Bill Atkinson saying he had an agreement with Apple that, if it ever stopped offering HyperCard, the rights would revert back to him. Because some people were nervous right from the beginning about committing resources to it, if Apple should decide to give up and discontinue it. I wonder what happened with that agreement ...
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  3. Ted Nelson has been working on his “Project Xanadu” for decades. I don’t think it’s reached production quality yet.
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  4. Ah, the clip art: black-and-white or grainy it was, yet it had a definite style about it.
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  5.  @gblargg  That’s why I wrote GrainyPy, so you can experiment with different dithering algorithms (pattern dither, diffusion dither), in black-and-white and colour.
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  6. We have Jupyter notebooks, which let you type a few lines of Python to do interesting things — “scratchpad” programming, if you like.
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  7. Buy a second-hand car. They depreciate less.
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  8. HyperCard still lives on, in the form of LiveCode.
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  9. Apple did create a Web browser around a compound-document format later, with “CyberDog” that was built on top of OpenDoc. That didn’t last long.
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