Sep 22, 2005 3:59 AM

Wow, the 1991 Hypercard Classic

*I might have known that all this digital fooforaw

would end up eating print wholesale, even

if a "hypercard stack" had the dead-media

lifespan of a hamster.

http://www.streettech.com/bcp/

Getting 'Beyond Cyberpunk' == still sounds like a good idea 15 years later

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