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Ever since I heard about Bill Atkinson’s passing, I’ve been diving into everything I can find about HyperCard. Today, while the world was glued to WWDC25, I was off exploring alternate timelines—asking ChatGPT what HyperCard and the world might have become if it had never been discontinued. It was a blast. 💥

Raise a glass to the late, great Bill Atkinson, creator of QuickDraw, MacPaint, and HyperCard. A truly deep thinker, and innovative software developer.

I met him at MacHack once and we talked about cameras— I worked for Kodak at that time. At that point he was focused on photography rather than software.

RIP #BillAtkinson (1951–2025). During his time at #Apple, he was central to the development of the graphical user interface of the Lisa and later the Macintosh, and is best known for creating MacPaint, QuickDraw, and HyperCard.

Atkinson is also credited for designing Venice, a chancery script bitmap font. Along with #SusanKare’s designs, it was one the “City” fonts that came with the original #Macintosh. fontsinuse.com/type_designers/