# 25 years of HyperCardthe missing link to the Web

<http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/>

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- Saved: May 31, 2012 (2012-05-31T14:08:53Z)
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## What Jamie wrote

I cut my teeth on HyperCard in junior high school. I did my high school humanities final project in HyperCard. I really wish HyperCard was on the iPad.

<blockquote>
I opened the app and read the instructions. HyperCard allowed you to create "stacks" of cards, which were visual pages on a Macintosh screen. You could insert "fields" into these cards that showed text, tables, or even images. You could install "buttons" that linked individual cards within the stack to each other and that played various sounds as the user clicked them, mostly notably a "boing" clip that to this day I can't get out of my mind. You could also turn your own pictures into buttons.
</blockquote>

## Facts

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## Elsewhere

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