# HyperCard@25 by Joho the Blog ## Metadata - Author: [[Joho the Blog]] - Full Title: HyperCard@25 - Category: #articles - URL: https://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2012/08/10/hypercard25/ ## Highlights added October 17, 2023 at 9:43 AM The Web took off because it wasn’t an application, but a specification for how applications could share hyperlinked information. Anyone who wanted to could write applications for displaying hyperlinked documents. And people ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hcyw9bwj8wc9g2f7ev9tv9f0)) The Web works off of a word-processing metaphor. HyperCard works off of a page-layout/graphics metaphor. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hcywa06dre4aeqtqmekyrpcj)) Interleaf made the same mistake of writing an app — and an expensive, proprietary one to boot — rather than a specification. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hcyxd252xgprjky6xae7vjwv)) the act of genius that gave us the Web was about the power of specifications and an architecture independent of the technology that implements it. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hcyxd7swjet3m18c48f3pngj))