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Re: [LUG] WWW turns 20

 

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 1 May 2013, Martijn Grooten wrote:
>> Wikipedia mentions HyperCard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard
>>
>> For reasons of age, I had never heard of that, and reading about it,
>> I'm not sure how much of a predecessor it really was.
>
> I don't remember it being "network aware", but it may have been - Early
> Apple Mac thing.

It may not have been, but it wouldn't have been hard for it to become
so - and then you'd have had a proprietary web rather than an open
one. I guess that's what they meant.

Martijn.

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