It's let a lot of non-programmers, like me, into that loop.

HyperCard has made it possible for people to do things they wouldn't have ever thought of doing in the past without a lot of heavy-duty programming.

The beauty of HyperCard is that it lets people program without having to learn how to write code - what I call 'programming for the rest of us'. HyperCard runs in the Classic Environment, but was not ported to Mac OS X. It was withdrawn from sale in March 2004, having received its final update in 1998 upon the return of Steve Jobs to Apple. HyperCard was originally released in 1987 for $49.95 and was included free with all new Macs sold then. This combination of features – a database with simple form layout, flexible support for graphics, and ease of programming – suits HyperCard for many different projects such as rapid application development of applications and databases, interactive applications with no database requirements, command and control systems, and many examples in the demoscene. HyperCard includes a built-in programming language called HyperTalk for manipulating data and the user interface. HyperCard combines a flat-file database with a graphical, flexible, user-modifiable interface.

It is among the first successful hypermedia systems predating the World Wide Web. HyperCard is a software application and development kit for Apple Macintosh and Apple IIGS computers. Macintosh: System 6, System 7, Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9

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