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   Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@calckey.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2023 09:23:52 JST Chris Trottier

   Maybe the best intro to software development I’ve ever encountered was something Apple made in the 1980s.
   
   It was called HyperCard.
   
   The concept was so simple almost anyone could do it. You had a series of cards, and you linked them.
   
   You could build lots of things with HyperCard: tell stories, store recipes, make games.
   
   In fact, HyperCard apparently inspired the World Wide Web.
   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard

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     Feoh (feoh@oldbytes.space)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2023 11:40:07 JST Feoh

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     @atomicpoet YESSSSS!

     I feel like we've forgotten how to get people hooked on computing unless they're REALLY naturally drawn to it themselves.

     Things like Hypercard were a natural evolution of where computing had been going since the 80s. The first machine I ever owned popped to a READY prompt when you turned it on.

     Atari BASIC wasn't Hypercard, but it WAS an invitation to learn and grow and explore new worlds with this AMAZING tool the world had never before seen.

     I miss that magic often, and look for that same spark in the modern day all the time. Sometimes I even find it :)

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     Ian Stoba (ianstoba@techhub.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2023 15:19:09 JST Ian Stoba

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     @atomicpoet I *loved* HyperCard. I wrote tons of custom educational software for my students and even published a zine that was distributed on floppy.

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