Hypercard was a work of genius. A software masterpiece. It was quite easy to learn. It enabled beginners as well as thousands of people without technical educat

Hypercard was a work of genius. A software masterpiece. It was quite easy to learn. It enabled beginners as well as thousands of people without technical education (e.g. most educators) by providing the versatility needed to fairly simply create thousands of responsive, easily-extensible, practical apps. And they did. IMO, that's why it had to die ... and why it was not handed to its many user groups. Noble attempts to recreate its facility failed for lack of its ubiquity. One of the saddest stories in personal computing.