Well thats interesting

#1 Tue, 7 Oct 2008 - 23:57 68kMLA

Weird little thing I just discovered:

Go to http://www.apple.com/hypercard and see what happens.

Not quite what you'd expect, hmm?

#2 Wed, 8 Oct 2008 - 00:34 68kMLA

Odd. Very odd.

#3 Wed, 8 Oct 2008 - 00:49 68kMLA

Does that count as an Apple endorsement of wikipedia?

#4 Wed, 8 Oct 2008 - 01:21 68kMLA

Wow, thats interesting.

#5 Wed, 8 Oct 2008 - 04:53 68kMLA

Somebody edit the article to slander Apple !

#6 Wed, 8 Oct 2008 - 13:53 68kMLA

Apple has all sorts of interesting redirects from their old, dead pages.

http://www.apple.com/powerbook/ goes to http://www.apple.com/macbook/ rather than /macbookpro

http://www.apple.com/iBook/ goes nowhere

http://www.apple.com/powermac/ goes to http://www.apple.com/macpro/ the only one of that lot that actually redirects to its successor

#7 Wed, 8 Oct 2008 - 14:58 68kMLA

I get a "page not found" when I try http://www.apple.com/macpaint. I was hoping it would redirect to something interesting, but I guess MacPaint was too long ago to have been eligible for its own webpage.

#8 Wed, 8 Oct 2008 - 15:13 68kMLA

apple.com/laserwriter goes to the store???

#9 Wed, 8 Oct 2008 - 22:02 68kMLA

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#10 Thu, 9 Oct 2008 - 00:06 68kMLA

http://web.archive.org/web/20020604065304/http://www.apple.com/hypercard/

what if they put that in place of the page there.

#11 Thu, 9 Oct 2008 - 00:32 68kMLA

what if they put that in place of the page there.

Then it would be a lie.

HyperCard 2.4.1 Retail Package Now Available

#12 Thu, 9 Oct 2008 - 03:37 68kMLA

Cool. I somehow doubt that was approved by Apple management, particularly seeing as http://www.apple.com/emate didn't exist (I verified that link with Archive.org). So it was probably some web designer or the website administrator that threw that in. Designer would be my guess, since a lot more of that type of folk probably used HyperCard.