Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

Bill Atkinson is the programming genius behind HyperCard, MacPaint and much of the original Macintosh operating system, but these days he's wistful about what could have been. Like, for example, the ...

Apple Macintosh owners have long been noted for their zeal. So who can be surprised at the recent fervor over HyperCard, the Swiss Army Knife of computer software? This program has been available for ...

HyperCard was amazing, especially when we remember what computing was like in 1987. It was certainly the first popular hypermedia program on the market. It combined database features in "cards" that ...

Here's one for the ... more experienced Achians among us One of my clients has a series of old HyperCard stacks to catalog his impressive book collection. He's moving to an Intel Mac and that seems to ...

The assembly nature of Hypercard as well Apple handing it off to Claris is what hurt it in the long run. Claris tried to make money off of Hypercard but since all that was need to make the free ...

HyperCard, the graphical hyperlinked Mac app that influenced the invention of the Web, was invented by Apple engineer Bill Atkinson after an acid trip 30 years ago this weekend. Now the Internet ...

Spend 15 minutes with Apple Computer`s HyperCard and you`ll know you`re seeing something fantastic. It may take a little longer to figure out why. Or at least that`s how I was beginning to feel until ...

Almost by necessity, Apple grew out of the homebrew movement, in which enthusiasts swapped knowledge and parts for building computers, and were as much tinkerers and electrical engineers as they were ...

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