One of the things that we sacrificed was what today we would call "end-user programmability" but which should really just be called "using a personal computer."

One of the things that we sacrificed was what today we would call "end-user programmability" but which should really just be called "using a personal computer." Hypercard was a UI builder, a way for regular people to program beyond the strict limits of the software given to them, and a hypermedia platform whose "applications" could be easily distributed. To do most of the things that Hypercard could do on a personal computing system of the early 90s on a system today requires someone to learn a full fledged programming language