My first programming language was BASIC on a Commodore 64. The next was Hypertalk on a Mac. Hypercard was the beginning of a two decade career making multimedia (the term for audio-visual interactive experiences from 1990-2005ish). This video does a fine job of capturing the concepts behind Hypercard and the types of hippies that spawned it. Hypercard inspired the internet and yet the internet, so far, has never reached the level of wonder I once felt making Hypercard stacks.
