Comment by KerrAvon
4 years ago
HyperCard absolutely had hyperlinks, and later versions had them in recognizable form before the web did — you could link from an arbitrary range of text in a text field.
4 years ago
HyperCard absolutely had hyperlinks, and later versions had them in recognizable form before the web did — you could link from an arbitrary range of text in a text field.
You could link to content _in another Stack_ (file) , for that matter. HyperCard absolutely had hyperlinks :) They were just called Buttons, but you could not only directly link to something, but also attach scripting to do additional stuff, pretty much exactly like the <a> tag we use and attach click events to today. I mean, I guess it wasn't like a piece of inline text, but you would just overlay a transparent button. That's a method I used, but there were probably better ways to link text. It was a long time ago, tough to even remember haha
But you could not link to content on another machine. I think that was the thing that made HyperCard obsolete the day HTML arrived.
> the day HTML arrived.
I don't know where you lived but where I did internet adoption was slow, and most computers operated in isolation for years before everyone was connected. Floppy disks and CD-ROM reigned supreme for quite a while. Long enough for a new version of HyperCard to have come out with hyperlink support if that had been a priority.
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the way I remember it, hypercard was hosted locally, as in, you'd get it on a floppy and then copy it to your computer. so linking to another computer didn't really make sense in that pre-Internet era