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Apple's Hypercard website redirects to the Wikipedia article

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Meanwhile, the Internet Archive's trove of old Mac software that runs in your browser is growing by the week. Lots of Hypercard stacks already in there, e.g. https://archive.org/details/TheManholeMacintosh

Oooh, Manhole <3 <3 <3

Only problem with the Archive.org setup is that you need to use System 6.0.* or really early System 7 to get the animation timing correct. The slow and sluggish frame by frame animation with later System versions is so annoying and ruining my childhood memories ;D

According to The Wayback Machine, Apple started redirecting it around December 18th, 2007[1]. Before that, it just redirected to a "product not found" page.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20071218153923/http://en.wikiped...

Which makes you wonder how much control they're giving away to Wikipedia over the contents of the article. Endorsing it with a link from their own site, without any curation, sounds unlikely. I'm reminded of the Whopper article controversy after that Google Home ad [0]. Obviously there's no reason to believe companies aren't doing this already.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Whopper/Archive_2#Request...

Well, at least they don't let you do /hypercard/foo -- although they do passalong the query string.

I wish they'd do the same with next.com tbh.

>although they do passalong the query string.

This is browser behaviour as defined by the spec for 301 (permamoved). Your browser redirects the GET request entirely, including the parameters in the URL.

Does anyone know what's the reason for such redirect? Does it mean, they don't want to maintain web page of discontinued product and do this to avoid 404 or redirect to homepage?

Meaningful information for anybody who might stumble across the URL with near-zero investment in maintenance. Approach it from a company that prides itself on user experience - a 404 or other "unexpected" result is the worst user experience.

HyperCard was created by Bill Atkinson following an lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) trip.[10]

Anyone delightfully using any of the Hypercard successors like SuperCard or LiveCode?

What's the URL?

https://www.apple.com/hypercard/

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