[evolve2k]

I remember making a game with hyper card when I was at school and loved that I could visually script the buttons.

We hand drew pictures of 3D rooms and then scanned them in and put big invisible buttons over the doors etc.

I personally think the www killed hyper card, suddenly you could do very similar things but have them instantly shared globally.

In my mind hypercards real innovation was creating your own links which would take you to any other card you desired, I think plain old simple HTML came along and killed the poor thing. HyperCard lived in a time of share it on a disc and I imagine Jobs seeing it's days as numbered.

[dahjelle]

Bill Atkinson, the creator of Hypercard, is on record [1] wishing he'd had the foresight to extend the links to the network. Hypercard was inches away from being the first "web browser".

[1] http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2002/0...