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Scott Murray :neurodiversity:<p>Today I learned that <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HyperCard</span></a> was inspired, in part, by an LSD trip.</p><p>…Probably appropriate, in retrospect.</p><p>♥️</p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/bill-atkinson-apple-engineer-dies/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/bill-atkinson-</span><span class="invisible">apple-engineer-dies/</span></a></p>
E<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>inthehands</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@lePetomaneAncien" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lePetomaneAncien</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@arroz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>arroz</span></a></span> </p><p>i have been searching for a <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HyperCard</span></a> replacement for decades</p>
Telmo 🦕<p>Ever since I heard about Bill Atkinson’s passing, I’ve been diving into everything I can find about HyperCard. Today, while the world was glued to WWDC25, I was off exploring alternate timelines—asking ChatGPT what HyperCard and the world might have become if it had never been discontinued. It was a blast. 💥 </p><p><a href="https://masto.pt/tags/billatkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>billatkinson</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/hypercard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hypercard</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/wwdc25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wwdc25</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/wwdc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wwdc</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apple</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macintosh</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/retromacintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retromacintosh</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/chatgpt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chatgpt</span></a></p>
Jan Miksovsky<p>I’ve witnessed only a tiny number of noteworthy moments in <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></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" target="_blank">#<span>HyperCard</span></a>. Completely mind-blowing: graphics, simplicity, expressiveness.</p><p>I remember HyperTalk’s surprising use of `it` as an accumulator:</p><p>```<br>get the selection<br>put it into the message box<br>```</p><p>I can’t name a contemporary user-friendly <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> environment that lets you create apps/sites as easily as HyperCard did. ☹️</p>
Dan Connolly<p>I kept the "HyperTalk Programming" book all these years.</p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HyperCard</span></a></p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/@dckc67/lists/1/mylowestbookshelf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/@dckc67/li</span><span class="invisible">sts/1/mylowestbookshelf</span></a></p>
Dan Connolly<p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/grateful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grateful</span></a> for Bill Atkinson and <a href="https://social.coop/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HyperCard</span></a></p><p>HyperSchool is a HyperCard application for schools to do scheduling, attendance, and grades.</p><p>It includes thousands of lines of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/HyperTalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HyperTalk</span></a> code, plus some<br>C code to interface to a scantron machine and to do simulated annealing<br>before the user gets old.</p>
apfeltalk :verified:<p>Bill Atkinson: Der Zeitlose Pionier der Computertechnologie<br>Die Welt der digitalen Innovation hat am 5. Juni 2025 einen ihrer brillantesten Köpfe verloren. Bill Atkinson, der berühmte Macintosh-Pionier und Erfinder von HyperCard, verstarb i<br><a href="https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/bill-atkinson-der-zeitlose-pionier-der-computertechnologie/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/bill</span><span class="invisible">-atkinson-der-zeitlose-pionier-der-computertechnologie/</span></a><br><a href="https://creators.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://creators.social/tags/Tellerrand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tellerrand</span></a> <a href="https://creators.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://creators.social/tags/BillAtkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BillAtkinson</span></a> <a href="https://creators.social/tags/Computerindustrie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Computerindustrie</span></a> <a href="https://creators.social/tags/Fotografie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fotografie</span></a> <a href="https://creators.social/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HyperCard</span></a> <a href="https://creators.social/tags/Innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Innovation</span></a> <a href="https://creators.social/tags/Macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Macintosh</span></a> <a href="https://creators.social/tags/MagicSlate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MagicSlate</span></a> <a href="https://creators.social/tags/QuickDraw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuickDraw</span></a> <a href="https://creators.social/tags/Technologie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technologie</span></a> <a href="https://creators.social/tags/WorldWideWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldWideWeb</span></a></p>
Oliver Kennedy<p><a href="https://discuss.systems/tags/Hypercard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hypercard</span></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)</p><p>RIP <a href="https://discuss.systems/tags/BillAtkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BillAtkinson</span></a>. Your contributions to our lives will ripple throughout time.</p>
Blake Patterson<p>RIP Bill Atkinson</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mac</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Macintosh</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/inventor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inventor</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/artist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>artist</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/pirate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pirate</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/vintageApple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vintageApple</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/MacPaint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MacPaint</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HyperCard</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/QuickDraw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuickDraw</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/hero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hero</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/RIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RIP</span></a></p>
Telmo 🦕<p>Should the next <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/MARCHintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MARCHintosh</span></a> be dedicated to Bill Atkinson? His work—MacPaint, HyperCard, and a visionary approach to software—defined the soul of early Macintosh. Every retro Mac celebrates him in spirit, but perhaps this time we could make it official.</p><p><a href="https://masto.pt/tags/billatkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>billatkinson</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macintosh</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/retromacintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retromacintosh</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/hypercard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hypercard</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/vintagemac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vintagemac</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
Geoff Duncan<p>So, 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. </p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/billatkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>billatkinson</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/hypercard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hypercard</span></a></p>
Bruce MacDonald<p>"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."<br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/technology/bill-atkinson-dead.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/06/07/technol</span><span class="invisible">ogy/bill-atkinson-dead.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/obituary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>obituary</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ComputerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerHistory</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/QuickDraw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuickDraw</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HyperCard</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Macintosh</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/MeaningfulLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MeaningfulLabor</span></a></p>
vga256<p>good long night bill. your software lives on with us.</p><p><a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/07/bill-atkinson-rip" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daringfireball.net/linked/2025</span><span class="invisible">/06/07/bill-atkinson-rip</span></a></p><p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/hypercard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hypercard</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/vintageApple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vintageApple</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macintosh</span></a></p>
Classic Web<p>Twin Peaks on <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HyperCard</span></a>, 1991-94; via <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>internetarchive</span></a></span>.</p>
Telmo 🦕<p>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.</p><p><a href="https://masto.pt/tags/billatkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>billatkinson</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macintosh</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/hypercard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hypercard</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/macpaint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macpaint</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
Paolo Amoroso<p>RIP Bill Atkinson.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Atkinson" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Atk</span><span class="invisible">inson</span></a></p><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210606" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4</span><span class="invisible">4210606</span></a></p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HyperCard</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apple</span></a></p>
Maj - 🇨🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ricmac" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ricmac</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://w3c.social/@timbl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>timbl</span></a></span> I created a "Choose Your Own Adventure" story/game in Hypercard circa 1989-90(?) It had a map that "unscrolled" and you could jump to different places and then complete puzzles and make decisions. I kept that floppy disk (which wasn't actually floppy at that point I think) for years...</p><p><a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/deepMagic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deepMagic</span></a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/hypercard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hypercard</span></a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/nostalgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nostalgia</span></a></p>
Richard MacManus<p>I’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" target="_blank">#<span>HyperCard</span></a> on the Web. <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://w3c.social/@timbl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>timbl</span></a></span> himself mentioned it in his original WWW proposal (<a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/1990-programming-the-world-wide-web/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/1990-progr</span><span class="invisible">amming-the-world-wide-web/</span></a>), early web browsers like ViolaWWW were modeled on HyperCard (<a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/1992-web-vs-gopher/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/1992-web-v</span><span class="invisible">s-gopher/</span></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" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/1995-the-b</span><span class="invisible">irth-of-javascript/</span></a>).</p>
James Callender<p>Love this <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hypercard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hypercard</span></a> inspired research prototype for building small bespoke applications in a collaborative environment from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@jrcplus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jrcplus</span></a></span> and Pontus Granström (cc <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@uliwitness" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>uliwitness</span></a></span>) <a href="https://pontus.granstrom.me/scrappy/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">pontus.granstrom.me/scrappy/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
MacintoshGarden Feed<p>SpaceTime</p><p><a href="https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/spacetime" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">macintoshgarden.org/apps/space</span><span class="invisible">time</span></a></p><p>A multimedia CD-ROM about the history of space exploration.</p><p><a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/macgarden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macgarden</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/clipart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>clipart</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/educational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>educational</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/hypercard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hypercard</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/reference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reference</span></a> #1992 <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/timebox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>timebox</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/wayzatatechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wayzatatechnology</span></a></p>
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