Larry-bob @larrybob@octodon.social
Book: The International Homosexual Conspiracy.
#Queercore #zine: Holy Titclamps.
#OpenMic: Smack Dab at Dog Eared Castro.
#SF #queer events: sfqueer.com
If a #hashtag doesn't show up when you search for it like #FLE on http://mastodon.social/
you can always use the url shortcut as follows:
mastodon.social/web/timelines/tag/FLE
https://mastodon.social/web/timelines/tag/FLE
toot ! 🐘
#Mastodon #hashtag #search #problem
#Matodon #nimi_lukin #lukin #pakala #sona
Like you can see on this picture, on http://mastodon.social/ , you get five suggestions but the existing #FLE isn't part of them: https://mastodon.expert/media/Yy2Ske6fuOuqUpQr59I
Hey, do we actually call these things #HASHTAG or do we have a nicer name for that, too?
5-disc set of #Hypercard based Beyond #Cyberpunk: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to the Future.
Web version: http://www.streettech.com/bcp/
https://octodon.social/media/VbWNYgFrpeODNGLr2L4
I like the look of the brightly colored tables in this 1997 version of my website. https://octodon.social/media/2IKABqv8uuDyjl5whiE
I like the look of the brightly colored tables in this 1997 version of my website. https://octodon.social/media/2IKABqv8uuDyjl5whiE
I like the look of the brightly colored tables in this 1997 version of my website. https://octodon.social/media/2IKABqv8uuDyjl5whiE
Apparently some #Voyager CDROMS, such as "Our Secret Century" series by Rick Prelinger of ephemeral films were produced using Oracle Media Objects.
(by the way: Prelinger Archives collection of films were the among first materials beyond archived webpages added to the Internet Archive)
@Euphoria @ajr It looks like there is a commercial product, Supercard, which runs on OSX and allows for import of Hypercard stacks. http://www.supercard.us/got-hypercard.html
#Oracle Media Objects aka Oracle Card was a #Hypercard like media creation tool which was Macintosh OS 6-9 based but could apparently run stacks on Windows. Marc Benioff was on the Oracle Card team and later founded #Salesforce.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Media_Objects
@ajr There is a currently usable #OSX #Hypercard like media creation tool called #Supercard. http://www.supercard.us/
Photo of me circa 1994 with a #MacClassic running a #Hypercard stack I wrote to review #queer #zines for #Factsheet5 and my publication Queer Zine Explosion. https://octodon.social/media/2T4Gs_da859Tn64dRqE
@ajr Voyager CDROM catalog. Some titles are Macintosh-only (seemingly earlier, HyperCard based ones before they moved to a multi-OS authoring system, perhaps.) This page about a Voyager CDR that also ran on Windows still mentions HyperCard when it runs on a Mac. http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/Voyager.html
https://octodon.social/media/9Ge_IDwsGROECBxnXQw
https://octodon.social/media/kziTweo_dmHIbI4y5UE
@ajr Back cover of Poetry In Motion II published by Voyager. Note System Requirements - it ran on Windows too, so maybe this one is not HyperCard based. Video resolution was fairly low - this is a CDROM, not a DVD-ROM!
https://octodon.social/media/UAoFgGybR7vC1eMi6iQ
@ajr Here's a Metafilter thread that links to an article & archive of Archipelago, a sort of group blog that used #HyperCard disks sent through postal mail. It also resembles an Amateur Press Association (a type of collaborative communication that dates back to the 19th century.)
http://www.metafilter.com/131995/Blogging-through-Hypercard
Archipelago Archive: http://www.cartania.com/archipelago/contents.html
Background on APAs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_press_association
@ajr One of the big losses of not being able to run #HyperCard is the loss of the ability to run Voyager CD-ROMs. They were associated with the Criterion Collection. Titles includes Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus, two volumes of Poetry in Motion, The Residents Freak Show, Laurie Anderson's Puppet Motel, etc.
Article mentioning HyperCard: http://www.inventinginteractive.com/2010/02/22/voyager-1989-2000/
Wikipedia including title list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Company
Okay folks, some of you were actually alive and using computers when #hypercard was a thing.
Tell me about your hypercard memories.
Did you make weird games or hypertext novels? Are any of them still out there? What were your favorites?
(I'm working on a thing, I need info.)
@ajr @LogicalDash Other way around. Smalltalk inspired Hypertalk. https://books.google.com/books?id=fToEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&dq=smalltalk+hypertalk&source=bl&ots=1dcenlVyrE&sig=AVFOcTWziht18fTUZFcV4eW0nkI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjcvO_V6M7TAhUnrFQKHQExDEsQ6AEIKjAD#v=onepage&q=smalltalk%20hypertalk&f=false
I'm just going to talk about Hypercard again for a bit.
It frustrates me to no end that the only way to run hypercard stacks today is to boot a Mac Classic emulator, and the load the stack in to hypercard in the emulator.
AFAIK, the whole thing was interpreted. We should be able to write a hypercard player for any platform.
Hypercard was a tool for Non-programmers to make programs.
The things that were made in hypercard are pretty simple, all things considered, but they could look and feel very polished, and it was way ahead of a lot of other tools in that regard.
If you've never used it, think of Hypercard as Powerpoint with functions and variable.
Going to the gym means less time for art.
