In 1990, I started a family diary on our 512K Macintosh using HyperCard. It was similar to a blog, but rather than web pages, information was on a card. The card could hold text, graphics, sound, and I could program buttons on the card that would do things like search, print, go to the next card, etc. The text could have hyperlinks so that one card could reference another. Different people in the family (mostly Nicole) could write entries. So it had a lot of the same capabilities as MovableType, it just was not shared on the internet.

Two other differences were screen size and color. HyperCard was born in a 9″ black and white screen world. The screenshot below is from our 17″ flat panel iMac. The “Our Diary” HyperCard stack is on the left and mac.fiveforks.com is on the right.

Apple just announced a 30″ screen. I’ve estimated how the 17″ screenshot above would fit on a 30″ screen.

I imported all of the old Our Diary entries into MovableType so they would not be trapped in a closed format. Although here in 2004, HyperCard still runs.