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Posted by kdawson on Sunday May 25, 2008 @08:13AM from the wild-cards dept.

bobwrit sends us to Wired for a look back by the author of HyperCard, Bill Atkinson. Quoting: "HyperCard is a programming environment that can create applications as diverse as utilities and games by linking 'cards' arranged into 'stacks.' Commands are executed through a natural-language scripting language called HyperTalk... The software has been phenomenally successful and highly influential. But Atkinson feels that if only he'd realized separate cards and stacks could be linked on different people's machines through the Net — instead of cards and stacks on a particular machine — he would have created the first Internet browser."

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Yeah yeah yeah (Score:4, Funny)

by Bastard of Subhumani ( 827601 ) writes: on Sunday May 25, 2008 @08:14AM (#23535231) Journal

Cudda shudda wudda.

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Re:Yeah yeah yeah (Score:5, Funny)

by deniable ( 76198 ) writes: on Sunday May 25, 2008 @08:16AM (#23535239)

Yep, instead he got beat by gopher.

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Re:Yeah yeah yeah (Score:5, Funny)

by WK2 ( 1072560 ) writes: on Sunday May 25, 2008 @08:28AM (#23535293) Homepage

I've been considering making a Firefox extension, or a greasemonkey script, to do just that. Although I wanted to filter attention whore articles, such as those about Jack Thompson, Uwe Boll, John Dvorak, or those submitted by Roland. Filtering kdawson would be good too. Unfortunately, I have no experience writing extensions or greasemonkey scripts for Firefox.

On the other hand, if we filtered all of the stories that we complain about on Slashdot, there would be nothing left. Then where would we waste our time?

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Re:Yeah yeah yeah (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday May 25, 2008 @10:27AM (#23535771)

> Then where would we waste our time?
4chan

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Re:HyperCard? (Score:5, Funny)

by FooAtWFU ( 699187 ) writes: on Sunday May 25, 2008 @12:06PM (#23536321) Homepage

Bah! You are forgetting LISP, which was not made up, but discovered! Like fractals or the Pythagorean theorem, an artifact of math, no more man's creation than the integers! LISP, the language from which the gods surely wrought the universe! [xkcd.com]
... actually, I too mostly hack things together with Perl.

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Re:You really want Slashdot to be... (Score:3, Funny)

by BiggerIsBetter ( 682164 ) writes: on Sunday May 25, 2008 @06:05PM (#23538685)

That would beat the big Yellow Pages it's been turning into lately...

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Poetic (Score:4, Funny)

by Bastard of Subhumani ( 827601 ) writes: on Sunday May 25, 2008 @07:50PM (#23539295) Journal

The genius of HyperCard was that it brought application development to the masses.

In sharp contrast to its primary failing, which was bringing the masses to application development.

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