Richard MacManus on Nostr: I’m sure we will hear a lot about Bill Atkinson (RIP) over the next few days, but I ...

I’m sure we will hear a lot about Bill Atkinson (RIP) over the next few days, but I want to point out the huge influence of #HyperCard on the Web. nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqv0lhpftmk954vj8dpfxqhcdep6j39danul9ckkpnrfx4fngs98hs78rst7 (nprofile…rst7) himself mentioned it in his original WWW proposal (https://cybercultural.com/p/1990-programming-the-world-wide-web/), early web browsers like ViolaWWW were modeled on HyperCard (https://cybercultural.com/p/1992-web-vs-gopher/), and even JavaScript owed a debt to it (HyperCard included an object oriented scripting language called HyperTalk; https://cybercultural.com/p/1995-the-birth-of-javascript/).