An introduction to Apple's Hypercard. Guests include Apple Fellow and Hypercard creator Bill Atkinson, Hypercard senior engineer Dan Winkler, author of The...
HyperCard
HyperCard is a software application and development kit for Apple Macintosh and Apple IIGS computers. It is among the first successful hypermedia systems predating the World Wide Web.
HyperCard
HyperCard is a software application and development kit for Apple Macintosh and Apple IIGS computers. It is among the first successful hypermedia systems predating the World Wide Web.
HyperCard Changed Everything
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Our seventh-grade class was led into a room full of brand-new Macintosh Performas. The day's lesson was a crash course in the use of an uncomplicated yet marvelous program. With it, one might persuade a computer to do anything and everything - or so it seemed to a child with the attention span to appreciate the wonder. Half a dozen of us were invited back a week later; and then again, and again, for several delicious months.
Loper OS » Why Hypercard Had to Die
Our seventh-grade class was led into a room full of brand-new Macintosh Performas. The day's lesson was a crash course in the use of an uncomplicated yet marvelous program. With it, one might persuade a computer to do anything and everything - or so it seemed to a child with the attention span to appreciate the wonder. Half a dozen of us were invited back a week later; and then again, and again, for several delicious months.
HyperCard Changed Everything
Software for One
Robin Sloan wished for a HyperCard that could build a family app in a day. That world showed up.
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This HyperCard demo from 1990 was one of the inspirations for Kosmik's new "auto-organize" feature 🪄 pic.twitter.com/3RoYbf96tG— Paul Rony (@Paul_Rony) March 14, 2025
at://userandagents.org/network.cosmik.card/Kffy9lJlvKgl-KCjGSTHymU4
Stuart K. Card and Thomas P. Moran, "User Technology—From Pointing to Pondering"
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Originally published in the AppleDirect, August, 1989 Republished as Chapter 6, in Tog on Interface