"Sometime around 1988, my landlady and I cut a deal. She would purchase a Macintosh computer, I would buy an external hard drive, and we would leave the system in the living room to share. She used the device most, since I did my computing on an IBM 286 and just wanted to keep up with Apple developments. But after we set up the Mac, I sat down with it one evening and noticed a program on the applications menu. "HyperCard?" I wondered. "What's that?" I opened the app and read the instructions. HyperCard allowed you to create "stacks" of cards, which were visual pages on a Macintosh screen. You could insert "fields" into these cards that showed text, tables, or even images. You could install "buttons" that linked individual cards within the stack to each other and that played various sounds as the user clicked them, mostly notably a "boing" clip that to this day I can't get out of my mind. You could also turn your own pictures into buttons." • #карты_и_колоды ∙ #гипертекст - × × ×

“In its two decade life span, HyperCard was enormously successful, and it succeeded all over the world. The Victoria Museum of Melbourne, which keeps track of Australia’s scientific and cultural history, has published a list of ways that educators in Melbourne used the program: • a stack of multiple choice test questions • assembling, storing and delivering teaching materials that included graphs from Excel • making class KeyNote-like presentations and handouts for students • a calculator that included a variety of mathematical functions and graphing capabilities • computer aided instruction in the sciences incorporating animation and sound • fractals • Geographical Information System tutorial • oil-spill modelling • literacy development • road safety • a database front-end to an Oracle database • a database in toxicology • selecting and playing tracks on a videodisk • an interactive educational presentation showing jobs in the wool industry • educational interactive games ‘Flowers of Crystal’ and ‘Granny’s Garden’ • ‘Beach Trails’ - exploring the local sea shore and shells. • TTAPS (‘Touch Typing - a Program for Schools’).” - × × ×

Дааа, из всего что мне удалось увидеть и потрогать в своё время на выставке "Информатика в жизни США" (а потрогал я, пожалуй, вообще всё что там было), HyperCard поразил меня больше всего. - Michael Bravo

Мы изучали HyperCard и HyperTalk в школе, даже делали навороченные интерактивные презентации. После него Power Point казался каким-то убогим недоразумением. - Spaceinvaderz!