Apple pioneer Bill Atkinson dies at 74; created MacPaint, HyperCard, and shaped the Macintosh interface

Bill Atkinson, the legendary Apple engineer who created QuickDraw, MacPaint, and HyperCard, passed away on June 5, 2025 at age 74 from pancreatic cancer. The article explores his pioneering contributions to personal computing and the Macintosh user interface, as well as his later