HyperCard: The App That Refuses to Die Now Has Web Vehicle

My buddy Asher Snyder pointed me at TileStack today. This is a site that lets you upload your old HyperCard stacks and turn them into Web applications. They also have an editing environment for creating new Web apps and widgets using the old HyperCard paradigm and HyperTalk scripting language.

Back in the day when HyperCard was the rage in the world of Apple, Bob Perez and I had lunch one day. (Bob was the first HyoerCard evangelist and a great human being.) He asked me what I thought might happen if Apple stuck a TCP/IP stack inside HyperCard so people could share stacks over a LAN. We kicked it around a bit but the project never got any traction inside Apple. If they'd have done that, they'd have been the foundation for the World Wide Web and all of that would have happened sooner.

You just never know.

I wonder how many of the old HyperCarders are going to show up at TileStack before it's over. XCMD Guru Frederic Rinaldi is apparently already there and I'm sure Danny Goodman won't be far behind if he isn't already there incognito.

Insanely weirdly wonderful.