Art Bits from HyperCard (archives.somnolescent.net)

HyperCard was definitely my first taste of what would become my career in web software development.

I wasn't a Mac user at home, but school had them and I absolutely loved what I could create with HyperCard, there was nothing like it on Windows.

I also recall switching to SuperCard simply for the COLOR support, what a time.

We need a modern HyperCard, I want to see more creative computing

Archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20260306224042/https://archives....

Ah, that'll be useful. The hardest thing about adding a new project to my site is finding a new HyperCard/System 6 icon. https://mk.gg/

now I need an emoji font in this 90s style of those 'small treasures'

My favorite fact about HyperCard was that the game Myst was built using HyperCard:

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst#:~:text=The%20game%20was%...

I so wish the author had made their screenshot at the top an image map so you could click on the icons to jump to each section below. But so cool!

I loved playing with HyperCard in elementary/middle school before I moved on to coding and saw what was possible there. But HyperCard will always hold a special place in my heart.

EDIT: Ok, I couldn't help myself, this [0] will inject the image map into the page (paste it into your console). Don't worry, it's simple and easy to read what it's doing). Video of what it looks like once injected: https://cs.joshstrange.com/t1T3KGxF

[0] https://gist.github.com/joshstrange/6ea1fb4b64b39ee410e2bd6f...

I wonder if these were created by Susan Kare.