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> Which made it approachable. And still WWW had orders of magnitude more users almost immediately. Hypercard is only easier to learn than "regular" programmin
by ajuc 6y ago
> Which made it approachable.
And still WWW had orders of magnitude more users almost immediately.
Hypercard is only easier to learn than "regular" programming languages if you're English speaker.
- mumblemumble 6y agoI think that that point actually supports the gist of the argument. In 1995, putting together a website was easier than using Hypercard. And so people flocked to it. Even people who were already somewhat familiar with Hypercard. Even though, at the time, Hypercard was largely more powerful. Some of that was because the Web made it so much easier to share. But I don't think that's the whole story. Fast forward 25 years, and the Web has become much more powerful, but the number of people making websites recreationally who don't also get paid to write software seems to have dropped precipitously.