It All Started with HyperCard

In many respects, Tinderbox is one of the spiritual successors to HyperCard, and this short video details some of the reasons why. Connected notes? Check. Customizable views? That, too. Programmability? Tinderbox has that in spades.

As someone who took a HyperCard bibliographic database stack and made it queryable on the internet, I’m bummed that the technology wasn’t carried forward by Apple. However, HyperCard’s spirit lives on, and for that, we tinkerers are eternally grateful to its creator, Bill Atkinson.

(via Kottke)