Matthew Lasar at ars technica reflects on HyperCard, the wonderful Apple application that I fondly remember using on my Mac Plus in the 90s:
I opened the app and read the instructions. HyperCard allowed you to create “stacks” of cards, which were visual pages on a Macintosh screen. You could insert “fields” into these cards that showed text, tables, or even images. You could install “buttons” that linked individual cards within the stack to each other and that played various sounds as the user clicked them, mostly notably a “boing” clip that to this day I can’t get out of my mind. You could also turn your own pictures into buttons.
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HyperCard may not have been the first Web client, but as the 25th anniversary of its releaseapproaches, I think that it deserves a more prominent place in the history of the Internet.
