HyperCard Is Why I Don’t Believe Software Is Magic

People sometimes ask how I got into programming. They usually expect some heroic story about learning C in a dark lab, or building kernels for fun, or some other origin myth programmers like to tell themselves. Nope. It was HyperCard . If you’ve never seen it, you should watch this. Seriously. HyperCard was this strange, wonderful thing Apple shipped in the late 80s that let you build software out…