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{{short description|Hypermedia system for Apple Macintosh and Apple IIGS computers}}
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{{Infobox software
| name = HyperCard
| logo = HyperCard 2-icon.png<!-- Image name is enough -->
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| caption = 
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| author = [[Bill Atkinson]]
| developer = [[Apple Computer]]
| released = {{Start date and age|August 11, 1987}}<ref name=macgui4987>{{Citation |url= http://macgui.com/usenet/?group=14&id=4987 |title= Hypercard – How About New Mac Owners |newspaper= Mac GUI}}</ref><ref name=32by32>{{Citation |url= http://32by32.com/macworld-expo-1987-boston/ |title= Macworld Expo 1987 Boston |newspaper= 32by32 Macintosh History from the 1980s|date= August 11, 1987 }}</ref>
| discontinued = yes
| latest release version = 2.4.1
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|1998}}
| programming language = [[Apple Pascal]]
| operating system = [[Classic Mac OS|Macintosh]]: [[System 6]], [[System 7]], [[Mac OS 8]], [[Mac OS 9]]<br />[[Apple IIGS]]: [[Apple GS/OS|GS/OS]] 5 and 6
| platform = [[Macintosh]], [[Apple IIGS]]
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| language = English
| genre = [[Hypermedia]], [[software development]]
| license = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]]
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| website = {{web archive|url=http://web.archive.org/web/19980429142519/http://www.apple.com/hypercard/|title=apple.com/hypercard}}
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'''HyperCard''' is a [[application software|software application]] and [[software development kit|development kit]] for Apple [[Macintosh]] and [[Apple IIGS]] computers. It is among the first successful [[hypermedia]] systems predating the [[World Wide Web]].

HyperCard combines a flat-file [[database]] with a graphical, flexible, user-modifiable interface.<ref name= currents>{{Citation |first= David |last= Needle |url= http://macgui.com/usenet/?group=14&id=4827 |title= HyperCard: Rumors or Reality |newspaper= Computer Currents |date= August 11, 1987}}</ref> HyperCard includes a built-in [[programming language]] called [[HyperTalk]] for manipulating data and the user interface.

This combination of features – a database with simple form layout, flexible support for graphics, and ease of programming – suits HyperCard for many different projects such as [[rapid application development]] of applications and databases, interactive applications with no database requirements, command and control systems, and many examples in the [[demoscene]].

HyperCard was originally released in 1987 for $49.95 and was included free with all new Macs sold afterwards.<ref name=macgui4987 /> It was withdrawn from sale in March 2004, having received its final update in 1998 upon the return of [[Steve Jobs]] to Apple. HyperCard was not ported to [[macOS|Mac OS X]], but can run in the [[List of macOS components#Classic|Classic Environment]] on versions of Mac OS X that support it.