HyperCard Nostalgia
Nostalgia. Recently I’ve seen teacher’s “apps” created with PowerPoint or Keynote I wonder what we could do with HyperTalk in Keynote?
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43 results found.Liked: Art Bits from HyperCard
Someone has archived the Art Bits from HyperCard This stack is fantastic for showing off just how much Apple could do with two colors. Slowly, painfully, torturously, methodically—I’ve clipped out over 700 of these ******* things and stuck them on this page at their original size for your use and enjoyment. The entire thing is […]
liked: “Hypercard STILL being used for digital art projects.
Hypercard STILL being used for digital art projects. https://t.co/Yy5yADdivz pic.twitter.com/WEfz7Av44A — Tom Smith (@everythingabili) October 13, 2019
HyperCard turns twenty-five years
Apple’s original software construction kit: HyperCard turns twenty-five years old today | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog IMG_8585 by tantek Attribution-NonCommercial License I missed Hypercard’s birthday yesterday. I can’t begins to explain how this application has affected my computing life. HyperCard lowered the bar to making ‘software’ on a mac. When I started using […]
25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web
This month, I glanced at my historical watch. HyperCard will soon be 25, I noticed. What ever happened to it? I searched around and found venture entrepreneur and coder Tim Oren’s 2004 eulogy for the program, written the week that Apple withdrew the software from the market. HyperCard’s problem, he argued, was that Apple never […]
Hypercard – Internet Archive
An introduction to Apple’s Hypercard. Guests include Apple Fellow and Hypercard creator Bill Atkinson, Hypercard senior engineer Dan Winkler, author of “The Complete Hypercard Handbook” Danny Goodman, and Robert Stein, Publisher of Voyager Company. Demonstrations include Hypercard 1.0, Complete Car Cost Guide, Focal Point, Laserstacks, and National Galllery of Art. Originally broadcast in 1987. via […]
Bill Atkinson
RIP Bill Atkinson March 17, 1951 – June 5, 2025 Among many other things, the invention of HyperCard. Certainly the most important piece of software in my life.
Small Online Communities
I’ve thought about joining in with the indieweb carnival a few times, but procrastinated. This months struck me, May 2025 IndieWeb Carnival: Small Web Communities – uncountable thoughts. I’d love to hear your experiences of them, why and how you participate and what you think are the key ingredients for a successful small web community. […]
AppleScript Fun with Claude
I occasionally use AppleScript to avoid repetitive tasks. I quite enjoy writing scripts. My scripting tend to follow the guess and check procedure. It can be weeks or months between these efforts so I need to look up the library or search for many basic things. In my part time job, I quite often report […]
Kid Pix
The other apps I remember from those days included Claris Works1 and HyperCard2Amazing to see a Mac with kid pix running in emulation at archive.org. It feels snappier than the LCs we had back then. A pity I can’t get it going on iOS as I’d love to see my current class using it. The […]