February 25, 2005

When Multimedia Was Black and White

Smackerel offers "When Multimedia Was Black and White": A history of HyperCard. For a lot of people in the late 1980s and early 1990s, this is where work in multimedia (and hypertext) began.

Click the little Mac icons in the text for screenshots. The 9-inch, 512x384 monochrome screen seems quaint now, but back then it held a lot of magic. (Suddenly I sound like a greeting card.)

[via metafilter.com]

Posted by johndan at February 25, 2005 06:20 PM | TrackBack