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Sep 13, 2026
Will SmithHOST
The thing I wanted to know about...
Will SmithHOST
So in the Wired article with Steven Levy, they talk about building the first demos for this in HyperCard.
Will SmithHOST
HyperCard was Bill...
Will SmithHOST
What's Bill's name? Bill Atkinson.
Will SmithHOST
Bill Atkinson, yeah.
Will SmithHOST
He did HyperCard at Apple.
Will SmithHOST
And QuickDraw, for what it's worth.
Will SmithHOST
And
Allison SheridanHOST
You said, that's why we moved away from tidbits.
Allison SheridanHOST
I think you meant that's why we moved away from HyperCard.
Adam EngstGUEST
Oh, yes, yes, yes.
Adam EngstGUEST
Sorry.
Adam EngstGUEST
We were doing it from HyperCard.
Adam EngstGUEST
Just in case anybody was
Allison SheridanHOST
worried they were not following this plot correctly.
Adam EngstGUEST
Yeah.
AJ GonzalezGUEST
And on it was like a weird, it was like kind of a game.
AJ GonzalezGUEST
I guess it was probably made in something like Hypercard, which was Hypercard? That was what the original Myst was made in.
AJ GonzalezGUEST
I might be missing the name.
AJ GonzalezGUEST
Anyway, getting six JPEGs of the new Bionicles was everything, dude.
Susan LammersGUEST
And Microsoft wanted to launch into building encyclopedia and other products that would demonstrate how information could appeal and be used on a computer in a way for the home users for general kids and families and I was in the right place at the right time in the sense that I had experience in publishing I also had written this book and I was at that intersection and got tapped to run this group and begin experimenting with that, what it means to put information on a computer screen versus in print, and how to make it interactive.
Susan LammersGUEST
Bruce Atkinson, or Bill Atkinson at Apple, said, was working on HyperCard at that point.
Susan LammersGUEST
And we would go to Brown University because they had a lab, a research lab there.
Susan LammersGUEST
They invented the hyperlink.
Adam EngstGUEST
find it.
Chuck JoinerHOST
Well, that's where we started out with a more detailed explanation of HyperCard, because what did you say, it went away in the 90s? Yeah, 90s-ish.
Chuck JoinerHOST
You just told me we had dinner in April, and it's already August, and I thought it was a couple weeks ago.
Chuck JoinerHOST
So what does that tell you? Adam, thanks a lot.
Adam EngstGUEST
find it.
Chuck JoinerHOST
Well, that's where we started out with a more detailed explanation of HyperCard, because what did you say, it went away in the 90s? Yeah, 90s-ish.
Chuck JoinerHOST
You just told me we had dinner in April, and it's already August, and I thought it was a couple weeks ago.
Chuck JoinerHOST
So what does that tell you? Adam, thanks a lot.
Chuck JoinerHOST
Democratizing programming from HyperCard to Claude with Adam Angst.
Chuck JoinerHOST
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Chuck JoinerHOST
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Adam EngstGUEST
Absolutely true.
Adam EngstGUEST
Yeah.
Chuck JoinerHOST
So you wrote an article about how HyperCard democratized, I guess, programming, communication, whatever, in the early days.
Chuck JoinerHOST
And I felt like that was sort of a follow-up then or a precursor to another article you wrote about something that you are coding now with Claude.
Chuck JoinerHOST
Yes.
Chuck JoinerHOST
Democratizing programming from HyperCard to Claude with Adam Angst.
Chuck JoinerHOST
This is MacVoices.
Chuck JoinerHOST
Today's MacVoices is supported by MacVoices After Dark.
Chuck JoinerHOST
Yeah, we were just saying pre-show, you start on that and hours just disappear because not only are you getting stuff done, but it's fun.
Adam EngstGUEST
Absolutely true.
Chuck JoinerHOST
So you wrote an article about how HyperCard democratized, I guess, programming, communication, whatever, in the early days.
Chuck JoinerHOST
And I felt like that was sort of a follow-up then or a precursor to another article you wrote about something that you are coding now with Claude.
Chuck JoinerHOST
Yes.
Jason CalacanisHOST
... says to Dave Winer, now I owe a lot to Dave Winer, who is, um, an incredibly, um, an, just an incredible innovator.
Jason CalacanisHOST
He, he created HyperCard.
Jason CalacanisHOST
He created, uh, RSS and OPML, and then eventually Adam Curry said, "Can you add to the RSS feed an attachment and an enclosure?" And he said, "Yes, it's built." Just that easy, 'cause he was running the RSS standard.
Jason CalacanisHOST
Then Adam Curry started taking MP3 files and attaching them to Adam Curry, the famous, uh-
John McCoyHOST
It's like...
John McCoyHOST
if you if you if you grew up in the, you know, the 80s, it was like, HyperCard, it's like the first versions of HTML were simply a series of relational links between documents.
John McCoyHOST
And the idea was there before the there were computers that could could do that.
John McCoyHOST
And it reminds me of like, and also when I was a kid, I remember My brother used to subscribe to a magazine called Alarms and Excursions, which was what's what's called an amateur press association.
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