HyperCard

“That's totally forgivable given that HyperCard was the first original iteration”

“HyperCard must be one of the most influential pieces of software ever written”

“the world's least intuitive HyperCard stack”

“HyperCard gave you a somewhat natural language, instant persistent database and UI builder”

“Until the stack got too large, or one forgot the ID of the card one wanted to link to”

“Fantastic rapid prototyping environment with no-brainer UI elements and persistent database.”

“versus the HyperCard "message box" which shows only user input or a single system response.”

“They had a really cool thing going, but since it didn't contribute directly to the bottom line corporate had it killed.”

“It was really limited though”

“two major influences that directed me towards computer engineering it was Hypercard”

“It took browsers and web dev until, IDK, maybe 2010? to match the interactivity and capability of Hypercard circa 1994.”

“It was so, so easy to design UIs with Hypercard when you knew it was going to run on a 512×342 display.”

“Learning HyperCard Basic from the manual that came with the computer was so full of joyful moments.”

“programmable stacks with a domain-specific scripting language called HyperTalk that read like English”

“I remember being blown away by the promise of HyperCard when I first read about it.”

“I had GUI apps with a persistent database running faster than Claude can say”

“I first studied back-propagation in 1988, at the same time I fell in love with HyperCard programming.”

“letting Hypercard itself open the text files and 'set the script of' as needed”

“HyperCard, OSX, the phones, those really moved things forward independently of the rest of the industry.”

“all stacks were horrible, ugly and buggy”

“Interacting with network stacks via Apple Events and file sharing supported users and passwords, so at least considered security.”

“My first introduction to software engineering was via HyperCard in an advanced elementary school math class”

“Imagine if computing had continued down the path laid by systems like HyperCard”

“it was never allowed or positioned to fulfill its potential”

“the ease of creating things in hypercard is the important thing about it, and AFAIK that remains unmatched”

“I absolutely loved what I could create with HyperCard, there was nothing like it on Windows”

“until they stopped supporting it”

“what really propelled HyperCard to greatness was the intentional breaking of that model”

“The HyperCOD(e) version is limited, but you can go next card, and run on idle commands.”

“I loved HyperCard when I was a kid. It encouraged programming in a visual way.”

“One of my "funnest" little projects was writing up a little app (in Hypercard) for a division director who didn't know computers from a ham sandwich, and it was just right.”

“Hypercard was absolutely dope as an entry-level programming environment.”

“let me build interactive apps for non-computer-geek managers rapidly”

“MS Access, FileMaker and HyperCard were more advanced in some ways than anything today”

“Hypercard was genius, but without it, people had to cross that programming moat”

“It's how I got my start into more than just tinkering with Apple BASIC!”

“I knew HyperCard had influence, but I don't think I was quite prepared for just how much influence it had over this many people.”

“it was also a very welcoming environment for the development-curious”

“effectively killing in-the-box end-user programming on the Mac”

“I had fun with hypercard on MacOS 9. At work, even. The boss was into rapid prototyping, and I cooked up some damn productive stacks in a hurry.”