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Bill Atkinson
KindPerson
Born1951
Died2025
StatusDead
Fieldoperating systems
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

Wrote QuickDraw and MacPaint for the original Macintosh, then created HyperCard — programming for the rest of us.

Created HyperTalk

Wrote MacPaint, QuickDraw (the Mac's graphics engine), and HyperCard — the program that made ordinary people programmers.\n\n'The Apple interface is his' — menu bars, marching ants, and the lasso; died 2025.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Atkinson
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard