Comment by WillAdams
6 months ago
For the technological context and result:
https://www.folklore.org/Joining_Apple_Computer.html
Still very sad that HyperCard got sidelined and that even its successor, Livecode abandoned the idea of being available to everyone --- though it looks as if folks are still working that:
This is off-topic, we are discussing drugs here.
It's not off-topic, it's the intersection of two things that Bill Atkinson was extremely passionate about.
Perhaps the gp's comment was written and posted whilst being smashed, and that's just one of the effects.
Hypercard was inspired by an LSD trip.
which the link in question references:
>Inspired by a mind-expanding LSD journey in 1985, I designed the HyperCard authoring system that enabled non-programmers to make their own interactive media.