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Comment by garyrob

1 day ago

"In an alternate timeline, HyperCard was not allowed to wither and die, but instead continued to mature, embraced the web..."

In yet another alternate timeline, someone thought to add something like URLs with something like GET, PUT, etc. to HyperCard, and Tim Berners-Lee's invention of the Web browser never happened because Hypercard already did it all.

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jandrese  1 day ago

On one hand this would be simply amazing, on the other hand it would have been a total security nightmare that makes early Javascript look like a TPM Secure Enclave.

  • duskwuff  1 day ago

    Those who were there will remember:

      on openbackground --merryxmas
    merryxmas "on openbackground --merryxmas"
  end openbackground

    (And now I'm curious if this post will trip anyone's antivirus software...)