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30-plus years of HyperCard, the missing link to the Web
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"HyperCard is based upon hypertext," Gary Kildall told Stewart Cheifet. "It's a concept that was developed by Ted Nelson and Doug Engelbart in the sixties. The basic idea is this: if we're trying to do research on any kind of a subject, the subject matter exists in all kinds of different places. It
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HyperCard is a computer program based on hypertext, a concept developed by Ted Nelson and Doug Engelbart in the 1960s. Hypertext allows users to link different sources of information together, allowing them to quickly jump from one source to another. HyperCard was developed by Gary Kildall and was revolutionary for its time, providing an easy-to-use interface that allowed users to access and link information from multiple sources. It was the missing link between the early days of computing and the modern web, and it still has a place in computing today.

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  • "HyperCard is based upon hypertext," Gary Kildall told Stewart Cheifet. "It's a concept that was developed by Ted Nelson and Doug Engelbart in the sixties. The basic idea is this: if we're trying to do research on any kind of a subject, the subject matter exists in all kinds of different places. It can be books, magazines, tape recordings, Compuser...

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