Ars Technica has a good retrospective on HyperCard, a program I still remember fondly. (In fact, I still have my copy of HyperTalk 2.2: The Book in a bookshelf at home.) I wrote a JCL tutorial in HyperCard; UT developers who’ve taken my JCL class have seen some of the content that was in it.

When Tim Berners-Lee’s innovation finally became popular in the mid-1990s, HyperCard had already prepared a generation of developers who knew what Netscape was for.

Yep.