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by w10-1 724 days ago
> Bill Atkinson went on an LSD trip and had the idea for HyperCard

There's another (to me more plausible) story. Steve Jobs had plans for a 20MB hard drive, but marketing could not find users who wanted that much space. So Steve asked Bill to create an application full of graphics and sounds/media where people would build huge documents making floppy discs too painful.