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peace to bill atkinson, who came up with the idea for hypercard while he was on acid. #Tech #apple #psychedelic

The Psychedelic Inspiration For Hypercard – Mondo 2000
by Bill Atkinson, as told to Leo Laporte In 1985 I swallowed a tiny fleck of gelatin containing a medium dose of LSD, and I spent most of the night sitting on a

Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74
Atkinson’s gleeful brilliance helped people draw on computer screens and access information via links.
https://www.wired.com/story/bill-atkinson-apple-engineer-dies/

Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74
Atkinson’s gleeful brilliance helped people draw on computer screens and access information via links.

HyperCard was magnificent. Still is.
The HyperTalk language was cool — but even cooler IMO was the way the dev environment mixed code with direct manipulation of the UI. There are lots of problems with that approach for generalized Ui development, yes, but the experience of it was magical.
Unity and the like have a similar editor structure — edit UI objects, attach code to them — but the feeling is totally different somehow.
https://mastodon.social/@ricmac/114643259120579546

RIP
https://www.wired.com/story/bill-atkinson-apple-engineer-dies/

Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74
Atkinson’s gleeful brilliance helped people draw on computer screens and access information via links.

We need something like iWeb for many things… Bento was another nice piece of software of the same vein… And of course HyperCard. That’s the Apple I miss the most.
https://stefanbohacek.online/@discontinued/114615179591160763