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How many lives and careers were influenced by #hypercard?

@pluralistic started his programming career as a HyperCard developer.
@bret was inspired to build "HyperCard in the World" which led to DynamicLand.
@wikipedia began as experiments in HyperCard stacks.

For my latest post, I got to know HyperCard, thought about how it compares to "vibe coding," and considered efforts to make English itself a programming language.

Stone Tools (@stonetoolsblog@mastodon.social)

🪨 HyperCard on the Macintosh 🛠️ The "software erector set" that launched careers and an entire industry, and came tantalizingly close to delivering us the world wide web 6 years early. Our last post of 2025 takes a deep look at this important title.
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#hypercard @Cory Doctorow @Wikipedia @Bret Victor
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Chuckles
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my first volunteer/freelance gig was finishing the library loan system at the Atlanta Gay Center in 1990. #Hypercard is sui generis: often imitated, completely supplanted, never equalled.
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