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scroottoday at 8:02 PM2 repliesview on HN

Imagine if computing had continued down the path laid by systems like HyperCard


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aldousd666today at 8:44 PM

Hypercard is really kind of like the first implementation of HTML5. With applescript instead of javascript.

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TuringTesttoday at 8:20 PM

We're finally getting there. The model of web notebooks look a lot like Hypercard stacks in terms of usability; there's only missing someone packing them in and easy-to-use distribution and sharing environment that does not depend on users installing their own web server.

And if that package includes some reasonable local LLM model, creating simple programs by end users could be even easier than it ever was with Hypercard.

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