On 10/25/25 8:27 AM, Rich Pieri wrote:
Not necessarily strange. Hypermedia platforms like HyperCard long predate anything resembling the modern Web.
Ah, I miss HyperCard. It was terribly limited (enter SuperCard!), and it was a horrible programming environment in so many ways, but it did some things very nicely. And it allowed quick and easy hacks. Why can't Python have a way to UI's that were half as easy to use?
And as a hacky database, it was actually useful. I wish I knew of a database that would let me so easily store and access data.
But I think you're not wrong comparing with a full operating system.
A very odd OS, particularly when one adds in all the cloud stuff that has become standard. What a complicated mess. And a security disaster. Yet it is just normal these days.
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