Entry updated · Sources & corrections policy
1987 - 2004
HyperCard
“HyperCard organized interactive projects as stacks of cards with links, controls, and scripts.”
- Birth year
- 1987
- Shutdown year
- 2004
- Lifespan
- 17 years
- Peak era
- Company
- Category
- Software
0 people remember this
Log in to leave a flower
What Was It?
HyperCard organized interactive projects as stacks of cards with links, controls, and scripts. It made creating a small application approachable to people who did not begin as professional programmers.
Its long influence comes from that combination of simple visual structure and extensibility, making the Macintosh a place to invent tools as well as use them.
The Story
- 1987 The product era documented here begins in 1987. HyperCard organized interactive projects as stacks of cards with links, controls, and scripts.
- 2004 The original HyperCard product reached its retirement or final-development milestone in 2004. Existing installed software can outlive the vendor’s active product line.
How It Died
The original HyperCard product reached its retirement or final-development milestone in 2004. Existing installed software can outlive the vendor’s active product line.
Memories
Log in to add a comment and share your memory.
Loading comments…