If Hypercard were so wonderful, then someone else would have made something similar and it would have went on to world domination. Instead, all we're left with

If Hypercard were so wonderful, then someone else would have made something similar and it would have went on to world domination. Instead, all we're left with are occasional posts on Hacker News about how wonderful Hypercard was, some adoring comments about the wonder of Hypercard, and some fan websites. Then it falls back into obscurity - or, possibly, there are indeed Hypercard clones available, but they don't inspire the same nostalgia. Geeks keep all sort of obscure things alive - GNU Emacs, OpenTTD, ReactOS. Either there are indeed Hypercard-like things out there, or this really is nothing more than nostalgia.