[commieneko]

Hypercard was a wonder. I used to teach street people how to make simple, useful applications that they thought of themselves.

Sure it was limited in what it did, and that was part of its beauty. It was a tool for quickly hacking together a simple application. A tool that nearly anyone could learn to use quickly. And it was fun and spontaneous.

And the Hypertalk language was very interesting to work in. It was like a limited dialect of a spoken language; a pidgin for computers.