Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies on HyperCard
After posting the video on the history of HyperCard the other day, I went down a bit of a HyperCard rabbit hole on the Internet Archive. There are a ton of HyperCard programs, manual & packaging scans, and other resources available on IA; among them:
- The Manhole, from the developers of Myst
- A bird identification quiz
- The 1991 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference Presentation (“Contains session info, presentations, and attendee list”)
- The “expanded book” version of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- A guide to the first season of Twin Peaks
- The Electronic Whole Earth Catalog from Stewart Brand & Kevin Kelly
I also found this version of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies:
You can see why people call HyperCard “the web before the web”…it’s all right there.
Also, don’t miss this comment from Keith Dawson (who you may remember from the pioneering tech newsletter Tasty Bits From the Technology Front) on how HyperCard was almost called Wildcard.
Soon after, I took a call from Apple. Would we be willing to give up the name Wildcard, or at least license it for their use on a new product? We discussed it. No.
Wild.
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I was thinking those emulators had something missing and it's the crunching and churning of floppy disks. The soundtrack to my early computing life that I didn't realise I'd lost.
I went looking for a video with Mac disk drive sounds and found this one from a channel called, coincidentally, Ashton's Retro Computer Room: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs-MOrtaqsU
Oh my Proust!
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