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Macintosh Pioneer Bill Atkinson, HyperCard Inventor, Dies at 74

June 9, 2025

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, points to a computer screen displaying early web technology.

Bill Atkinson, creator of MacPaint and HyperCard, passed away at 74; his work at Apple in the 1980s revolutionized computing…