I think the experimentation is what we've lost and miss but can't explain. Imagine an alternate world where people tinkered in HyperCard and eventually the cod

I think the experimentation is what we've lost and miss but can't explain. Imagine an alternate world where people tinkered in HyperCard and eventually the code evolved to be network-aware, and we all wrote in HyperTalk and not HTML. And then that became the web. I think Atkinson even acknowledges that this was a huge missed opportunity.