Ars Technica has a wonderful writeup today about Apple's HyperCard, which would be celebrating its 25th birthday if it was still around. HyperCard was a wonderful tool; it provided a way for non-programmers to link "cards" of information with simple scripts and a variety of common Mac user interface elements. A button could play a sound, link to another card, or even perform calculations, so it was everyman's way of creating "stacks" of cards that could do amazing things.
How important was HyperCard to the world? Although we don't hear much about it today, it was the first implementation of what Ted
