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Technically, Apple only axed Hypercard in 2004: http://due-diligence.typepad.com/blog/2004/03/a_eulogy_for_hy.html http://due-diligence.typepad.com/blog/2004/0

Technically, Apple only axed Hypercard in 2004: http://due-diligence.typepad.com/blog/2004/03/a_eulogy_for_hy.html http://due-diligence.typepad.com/blog/2004/03/a_eulogy_for_h... Being axed by Apple wasn't its problem. Hypercard was already obsolete by the early 1990s for a range of technical and mismanagement reasons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7275781 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7275781

idlewords 12y ago
I was working in academia at the time it got axed (2004), and you'd be amazed at the number of people quietly depending on it, with no idea that they had actually learned some scripting. Professors I had never even suspected of using a computer were absolutely bereft. Some people had poured vast amounts of work into creating HyperCard stacks, and there was really no viable alternative to point them to. It was heartbreaking to watch.