Richard MacManusI’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 #HyperCard on the Web. @timbl himself mentioned it in his original WWW proposal (https://cybercultural.com/p/1990-programming-the-world-wide-web/), early web browsers like ViolaWWW were modeled on HyperCard (https://cybercultural.com/p/1992-web-vs-gopher/), and even JavaScript owed a debt to it (HyperCard included an object oriented scripting language called HyperTalk; https://cybercultural.com/p/1995-the-birth-of-javascript/).
@timbl On a more personal level, I used HyperCard before I came across the Web. HyperCard on Macintosh was part of an “Information Systems” course I did at university in the early 90s (yes I am that old). I remember being really impressed by the UI and the “stacks” of cards you could manipulate.
Maj - 🇨🇦@ricmac @timbl 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...
Molly B@ricmac I made stacks for a couple of papers I wrote in library school (ca. 1992-93). I’d been using actual index cards in a shoebox, so it was mostly just an electronic version of that, but with links. Essentially a cute wiki. :-)
Johannes Ernst@ricmac same. I tried to record every book I read and a short summary.