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You’ve never heard of HyperCard? Decker is essentially its spiritual successor.

To be honest, never been a Mac user and HyperCard may have been a bit before my time. The Windows 95-98 er UX brings me more nostalgia.

But I can definitely relate to the yearning for older, clunkier, "quieter" tech, in this age of ubiquitous HTML, CSS, JS. These maybe seemingly naive assumptions like mixing code and presentation, suboptimal UX, and the fact that people still enjoy developing for them for fun rather than for some SaaS end, feels, I don't know, cozy?

HyperCard must be one of the most influential pieces of software ever written regardless of one's age or OS of choice. Ivan Zhao always seems to find an excuse to credit Bill Atkinson's creation for influencing what he wanted to achieve with Notion.

Do yourself a favor and play with the original via a simulator https://infinitemac.org/1996/System%207.5.3.

There's also an excellent overview of HyperCard and its historical context on Stone Tools: https://www.stonetoolsblog.com/hypercard-mac/

Thanks for sharing that

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