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Scott Murray :neurodiversity:Today I learned that <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HyperCard</a> was inspired, in part, by an LSD trip.…Probably appropriate, in retrospect.♥️<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/bill-atkinson-apple-engineer-dies/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wired.com/story/bill-atkinson-apple-engineer-dies/</a>

Eric Jennings<a href="https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@inthehands</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@lePetomaneAncien" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@lePetomaneAncien</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@arroz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@arroz</a> i have been searching for a <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HyperCard</a> replacement for decades

ThadHere's some stuff I wrote about HyperCard in 2017:<a href="https://corporate-sellout.com/2017/11/07/hypercard/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://corporate-sellout.com/2017/11/07/hypercard/</a><a href="https://brontosin.space/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HyperCard</a> <a href="https://brontosin.space/tags/BillAtkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BillAtkinson</a>

Jan MiksovskyI’ve witnessed only a tiny number of noteworthy moments in <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a>, but as a summer intern in 1987 I attended MacWorld and was in the auditorium when Bill Atkinson introduced <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HyperCard</a>. Completely mind-blowing: graphics, simplicity, expressiveness.I remember HyperTalk’s surprising use of `it` as an accumulator:``` get the selection put it into the message box ```I can’t name a contemporary user-friendly <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programming</a> environment that lets you create apps/sites as easily as HyperCard did. ☹️

Dan ConnollyI kept the "HyperTalk Programming" book all these years.<a href="https://social.coop/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HyperCard</a><a href="https://archive.org/details/@dckc67/lists/1/mylowestbookshelf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/@dckc67/lists/1/mylowestbookshelf</a>

Dan Connolly<a href="https://social.coop/tags/grateful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grateful</a> for Bill Atkinson and <a href="https://social.coop/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HyperCard</a>HyperSchool is a HyperCard application for schools to do scheduling, attendance, and grades.It includes thousands of lines of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/HyperTalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HyperTalk</a> code, plus some C code to interface to a scantron machine and to do simulated annealing before the user gets old.

Oliver Kennedy<a href="https://discuss.systems/tags/Hypercard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hypercard</a> was one of the formative influences on my development as a software developer and researcher. I'd done a bunch of programming in various flavors of Basic and C when I first started using it, but Hypercard was the first programming language that I used to solve real problems, ranging from writing up my HS Chemistry Lab reports, to cataloguing my coin collection, to developing a re-enactment of the climactic scene of the Merchant of Venice. I have fond memories of my high school Hypercard programming class (see the movie Hackers for a surprisingly realistic re-enactment), where we got to play with the school's scheduling system, written in hypercard (with fake data though)RIP <a href="https://discuss.systems/tags/BillAtkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BillAtkinson</a>. Your contributions to our lives will ripple throughout time.

Geoff DuncanSo, Bill Atkinson is probably the reason I stuck with computers, and definitely the reason I wound up on Macs. I'd done bits of programming before I stumbled across HyperCard (BASIC, 6502 Assembler, Pascal, shell scripting, blah blah blah—even smidgens of FORTRAN and COBOL) but it was always with disinterest: I just wanted to do a thing, and if I had to program to do it…sigh, *fine.* I couldn't wait to put the task behind me. But HyperCard…HyperCard made programming accessible and fun. And while HyperCard (and HyperTalk) had distinct limitations and shortcomings, it was amazing what it could be pushed to do—and I enjoyed doing it, which is something I cannot say of *any* development environment I've worked with since.I worked on games and educational titles built in HyperCard, and I created heaps of specialty and in-house systems (some of which were running until very recently). For years I ran a specialized web crawler that was (yep) built in HyperCard. Large parts of the backend for TidBITs were glued together with HyperCard. And no, none of this was rock solid, but it was very rare that HyperCard was the piece that failed.Of course, Bill Atkinson's contributions to the Mac, to computing, and the world were much larger than HyperCard. He was a giant, and I'm privileged to have stood on a tiny portion of one of his shoulders. Thank you.<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/billatkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#billatkinson</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/hypercard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hypercard</a>

Bruce MacDonald"It was Mr. Atkinson who programmed QuickDraw, a foundational software layer used for both the Lisa and Macintosh computers; composed of a library of small programs, it made it possible to display shapes, text and images on the screen efficiently." <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/technology/bill-atkinson-dead.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/technology/bill-atkinson-dead.html</a><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/obituary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#obituary</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ComputerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerHistory</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/QuickDraw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#QuickDraw</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HyperCard</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Macintosh</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/MeaningfulLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MeaningfulLabor</a>

vga256good long night bill. your software lives on with us.<a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/07/bill-atkinson-rip" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/07/bill-atkinson-rip</a><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/hypercard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hypercard</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/vintageApple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vintageApple</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#macintosh</a>

Classic WebTwin Peaks on <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HyperCard</a>, 1991-94; via <a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@internetarchive</a>.

Telmo 🦕The genius behind MacPaint, HyperCard, and so many other groundbreaking creations has left us. I like to think that Bill Atkinson is now in a better place—one where HyperCard was never discontinued, and its legacy lives on, evolving as it always should have.<a href="https://masto.pt/tags/billatkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#billatkinson</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#macintosh</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/hypercard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hypercard</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/macpaint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#macpaint</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a>

Paolo AmorosoRIP Bill Atkinson.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Atkinson" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Atkinson</a><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210606" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210606</a><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HyperCard</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#apple</a>

Richard MacManusI’m sure we will hear a lot about Bill Atkinson (RIP) over the next few days, but I want to point out the huge influence of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HyperCard</a> on the Web. <a href="https://w3c.social/@timbl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@timbl</a> himself mentioned it in his original WWW proposal (<a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/1990-programming-the-world-wide-web/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cybercultural.com/p/1990-programming-the-world-wide-web/</a>), early web browsers like ViolaWWW were modeled on HyperCard (<a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/1992-web-vs-gopher/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cybercultural.com/p/1992-web-vs-gopher/</a>), and even JavaScript owed a debt to it (HyperCard included an object oriented scripting language called HyperTalk; <a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/1995-the-birth-of-javascript/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cybercultural.com/p/1995-the-birth-of-javascript/</a>).

Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)So many weird things included as accessories in HyperCard 2.x instead of built in... <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/hyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hyperCard</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/retroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retroComputing</a>

Eric's EdgeIn three hours!Join me this Wed., May 7th at 9PM EDT for another <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HyperCard</a> programming live-stream. I've constructed a pop-up text editor. <a href="https://youtube.com/live/AnvdwWh3n1A?feature=share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/live/AnvdwWh3n1A?feature=share</a>

Eric's EdgeJoin me this Wed., May 7th at 9PM EDT for another <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HyperCard</a> programming live-stream. I've constructed a pop-up text editor. <a href="https://youtube.com/live/AnvdwWh3n1A?feature=share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/live/AnvdwWh3n1A?feature=share</a>

Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄Some of My History of Hypertext<a href="https://mdhughes.tech/2025/04/22/some-of-my-history-of-hypertext/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mdhughes.tech/2025/04/22/some-of-my-history-of-hypertext/</a>So in 1979, young Digital Mark is shown a computer, a TRS-80 Model I, by 4th-grade teacher. Other kids play Snake, I hit break and type LIST, seeing BASIC code, because I've been reading the instruction card. "I can read and learn this!" Nothing else now matters to Mark.That summer, I take an <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BASIC</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computers</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/Hypercard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hypercard</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/LispyGopherClimate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LispyGopherClimate</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/Xanadu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Xanadu</a>

Artyom BologovNext project I'm equally afraid and hyped about: re-implementing most of <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HyperCard</a> as <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HTML</a> form-based app. Requires: - A working <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/HyperTalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HyperTalk</a> (or the like) interpreter - Card editing form that's flexible enough to build e.g. a calculator - Script editing UI - Smart evaluation that works well with old-school HTML-first UIs - Server setup to handle all of theseSome of these are entirely new to me, and some don't have reasonable libs for in <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/CommonLisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CommonLisp</a>, so I'm quite floored with the amount of work. But if I manage to make this thing, I'll have a reliable note-taking tool and a simple programming system!(Now that I think about it, I don't really need a note-taking tool, because I use <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/hpda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hpda</a>. And the simple programming system might as well be a headless HyperTalk interpreter...)<a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/theWorkshop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theWorkshop</a>

Dan Morgan :ksu:I have found that it is really hard to get pixel perfect results when trying to create classic System 6/HyperCard windows using html/css when working with Safari. It is SO OPINIONATED about dithering certain things that are pixel perfect 1-bit pngs and about rounding the corners of form fields. I switched to using svgs to make a fill for my pinstripe title bars because of the dithering and inserting -webkit-appearance: none; into CSS to strip out styling of the form fields. <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/hypercard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hypercard</a>

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