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234 Bill Atkinson, Hypercard Creator and Original Mac Team Member, Dies at Age 74

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 06/07/2025 21:34 EDT

Bill Atkinson, Hypercard Creator and Original Mac Team Member, Dies at Age 74

AppleInsider reports:

The engineer behind much of the Mac's early graphical user interfaces, QuickDraw, MacPaint, Hypercard and much more, William D. "Bill" Atkinson, died on June 5 of complications from pancreatic cancer...
Atkinson, who built a post-Apple career as a noted nature photographer, worked at Apple from 1978 to 1990. Among his lasting contributions to Apple's computers were the invention of the menubar, the selection lasso, the "marching ants" item selection animation, and the discovery of a.

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