{"id":3976,"date":"2024-11-29T09:40:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T17:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/?p=3976"},"modified":"2024-11-29T09:41:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T17:41:03","slug":"byte-hypercard-and-ansi-c-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2024\/11\/29\/09\/40\/byte-hypercard-and-ansi-c-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Byte, Hypercard, and ANSI C, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 1988 for a school project, I made a <a href=\"https:\/\/apple.fandom.com\/wiki\/HyperCard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Hypercard\">Hypercard<\/a> (&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/folklore.org\/Joining_Apple_Computer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Inspired by a mind-expanding LSD journey in 1985<\/a>&#8220;) stack summarizing hardware sales and costs in every <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/byte-magazine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Byte Magazine<\/a> that had been released to that date (Library had a complete run). How I wish I still had that stack! Fantastic early magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Actually, now remembering, I made the stack to impress my girlfriend. We&#8217;d met on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Usenet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Usenet<\/a> and courted over Unix &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Talk_(software)\" title=\"\">talk<\/a>&#8220;screen messaging. Together, we were learning the new <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C_(programming_language)#ANSI_C_and_ISO_C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Ansi C<\/a> from the updated <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_C_Programming_Language\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">K&amp;R boo<\/a>k, dissing X.500, and playing <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Editions_of_Dungeons_%26_Dragons#Advanced_Dungeons_&amp;_Dragons_2nd_Edition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">AD&amp;D<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/ttrpgfactory.com\/2020\/05\/07\/paranoia-an-introduction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Paranoia rpg<\/a>. That&#8217;s how nerds rolled then<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1988 for a school project, I made a Hypercard (&#8220;Inspired by a mind-expanding LSD journey in 1985&#8220;) stack summarizing hardware sales and costs in every Byte Magazine that had been released to that&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2199,2196,2194,2198,2197,2200,2201,1915],"class_list":["post-3976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-add","tag-ansi-c","tag-byte-magazine","tag-c-programming-language","tag-kr","tag-paranoia-rpg","tag-unix-talk","tag-usenet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3978,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976\/revisions\/3978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}