Mac Fans’ Eyes Mist Over: Someone’s Re-Created HyperCard
27th March 2018
Apple fans with a bent for nostalgia have some to wallow in after a HyperCard clone debuted on Monday.
The brainchild of one Ben Fisher, ViperCard made itself known….
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HyperCard was created after Apple decided it wanted a “programming for non-programmers” environment, and in 1987, HyperCard arrived with a price point of US$49.95. It featured database capabilities, a graphical UI users could modify, and the HyperTalk programming language that let users create something not a million miles away from a static HTML website, only on the desktop. Hyperlinks were moderately-brain bending stuff in 1987, and HyperCard became a success on Mac Classic environments. The product made it to Version 3.0 before Steve Jobs abandoned it, and end-of-sale arrived in 2004.
HyperCard was a powerful and flexible tool that a lot of people greatly missed.