It was an early system that combined hypertext, scripting and pre-defined UX components. It was basically a very early implementation of what the modern web evolved into, but without the network connection foundation. I had a summer internship in Birmingham writing a front-end app to a Unix (pre-Linux days) system in it. It was a nice idea (as the modern web proves), just too early to be really useful and obviously missing a lot of stuff we take for granted today.
ok, that's pretty clear just one thing, what do you mean by "hypertext, scripting and pre-defined UX components"?...
You know how the web has scripting (javascript), hypertext (linking) and pre-defined UX components (input tags in html). The same - they had components for text, linking and input. Iirc, a card is the same as a html page, you had a basic like script, they had buttons, input boxes, lists, links etc... Edit: Found this on youtube, from 1991, so a later version than the one I used in 1989 or thereabout:
First liar has no chance. My first computer had a 50kbyte memory and used a stored phosphor image for it's visual memory. It was called a Tektronix 4051 computer and I still have it.
I've got numerous 33 1/3 LPs including the Beattles' White Album. That has been played at many pot parties. Never cared for Hendrix but I've been to his grave and left a lit cigarette. His grave was about a mile from my apartment in Renton.
I knew Perl back in my programming days (Hypercard pre-dates my programming days by a bit). I also learned some ASP when I needed to do some file access stuff.
