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HyperCard is very near and dear to my heart. When I was a kid I taught myself how to program with Hypercard. I'm a software developer today, and despite the crazy verbose syntax of HyperTalk, I still acquired an intuition for programming that remains helpful, 15 years later.

I actually approached Steve Jobs about the demise of Hypercard in 1998, when I was 15, at the Seybold SF conference. IIRC he gave a pretty dismissive response about it, basically saying that there wouldn't be a market for it anymore. It was pretty obvious that he didn't care about HyperCard or HyperCard-like products anymore. That, or he didn't want punk teenagers questioning his business strategy.

As a side note, I got my photo taken with him. When the photo was developed I saw that I was wearing a megawatt smile (shit, I met with Steve Jobs!), and Steve was looking distractedly at something in the corner.