When I first started using the web, my first reaction was “hey, it’s like Hypercard”. Which it was, since both used hypertext.

Very easy to get started in Hypercard, yet the versatility made it deceptively powerful.

My high school physics teacher was blown away by the app I designed that plotted projectile motion on a graph, based on user inputs. I’m sure I spent far less time on my project that other kids did on theirs, as it was actually a relatively straightforward app.

My school was pretty small, and didn’t have much of a computer science department, so I self-taught myself pretty much everything.