Show floor video: Tilestack aims to bring HyperCard stacks into the future

Sometimes the most interesting ideas are ones that fall out of favor and come back again years later. Witness Tilestack, a technology preview on the floor at Macworld that allows importing and instant web-enabling of vintage HyperCard stacks, as well as advanced interactive web applications with minimal coding. Check out the video and the Tilestack site for more info (video after the jump).

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theun4gven

So, does it come with a floppy drive so that I can get to all of my old stacks?

January 21 2008 at 1:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Maxwell

@Fritz Laurel - Funny you should suggest that HyperCard was a precursor of the web. When it came out in 1987, I wrote a rudimentary shared notes application (like a baby forum) in HC to run across my company's LAN, complete with links. I can't say it was a big success. perhaps because nobody really "got" it.

January 18 2008 at 9:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Henrik SÃ¦tra

HyperCard being just about gone is just about the worst thing that has ever happened in the world of computers as far as I'm concerned. I did EVERYTHING WITH HyperCard, and loved it to death.. Still do, but SuperCard just didn't bring it the necessary step forward..

Shame on you Apple, worst product-kill ever!

January 18 2008 at 4:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Larry Walker

If you miss HyperCard, you need (no, you NEED) to check out Revolution:

www.runrev.com

It's Hypercard all grown up with a very respectable IDE, including an interactive debugger.

Revolution is the best-kept secret in the world of computing today!

Larry
(just a satisfied customer)

February 24 2008 at 12:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Fritz Laurel

Interesting. I've always considered HyperCard (supposedly programmed in assembly language by Bill Atkinson when he holed himself up in a hotel room for a month -- I don't know if this is true or not) to be one of the parents of the web. It was like Web v0.1.

It was an amazing thing and the people loved it and cried when Apple stopped supporting it.

January 18 2008 at 4:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

matt

Do you think you could maybe put these videos behind jumps? The front page of tuaw is current 3.5 Mb!

http://img137.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tuawrs3.png

January 18 2008 at 4:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Granata

Woah! That's a blast from the past. I loved HyperCard when I was a kid but I'm certain I don't have any of my old stacks laying around.

January 18 2008 at 4:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply