Comment by msephton

In a nutshell: HyperCard democratised software development, making it available and accessible to the masses, for free.

In fact, many users were not even aware they were developing software. That's how easy and accessible it was.

Early web browsers, like NCSA Mosaic, enabled people to change the page - you could edit and publish HTML right there in the same tool that you were using to view it! That was the closest we got, and it was taken away from us.