HyperCard@25 by Joho the Blog

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)

The Web works off of a word-processing metaphor. HyperCard works off of a page-layout/graphics metaphor. (View Highlight)

Interleaf made the same mistake of writing an app — and an expensive, proprietary one to boot — rather than a specification. (View Highlight)

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)