Ars Technica has a wonderful writeup today about Apple's HyperCard, which would soon be celebrating its 25th birthday if it was still around. HyperCard was a wonderful tool; it provided a way for ...

Apple Macintosh owners have long been noted for their zeal. So who can be surprised at the recent fervor over HyperCard, the Swiss Army Knife of computer software? This program has been available for ...

Bill Atkinson is the programming genius behind HyperCard, MacPaint and much of the original Macintosh operating system, but these days he's wistful about what could have been. Like, for example, the ...

The assembly nature of Hypercard as well Apple handing it off to Claris is what hurt it in the long run. Claris tried to make money off of Hypercard but since all that was need to make the free ...

Twenty-five years ago today, HyperCard was released at Macworld Expo Boston. Apple's software construction kit for the rest of us began shipping on every new Mac as of August 11, 1987; you could also ...

HyperCard was amazing, especially when we remember what computing was like in 1987. It was certainly the first popular hypermedia program on the market. It combined database features in "cards" that ...

Spend 15 minutes with Apple Computer`s HyperCard and you`ll know you`re seeing something fantastic. It may take a little longer to figure out why. Or at least that`s how I was beginning to feel until ...

Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

For all Apple’s obsessive secrecy, even its senior managers acknowledge with an on-stage wink that much of what they announce these days has already been predicted. In the run-up to WWDC, I saw ...

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