There really isn't anything like it now. It's from a time when there were not a lot of applications out there any people had to DIY their own tools. Like a database for a repair shop. Now people have spreadsheets with tons of features or small niche apps. Then there are the big cloud apps like SaleForce and Quickbooks.
IonicFrog
I don't remember the details, but I read a comment somewhere that a small business, like a repair shop, created a custom application and has been using it for years.
I tried to google but only found this from 2002.
https://www.wired.com/2002/08/hypercard-forgotten-but-not-gone/
The TelePort Gold II came in at a speedy 14.4 Kbps. It came with my Macintosh Performa.
Maybe they are chunks of some kind of ceramic like material.
Was having problems as well, but the language setting worked.
I was going to say that AE2 is the original with the lore of alien tech falling from the sky. I know AE2 can be a little much, but I like it.
That doesn't test for their ability to meaningfully contribute to a discussion group. There would never be a robust group of woodworkers because the grandpa with years of professional woodworking experience has been excluded for using iPad. It will always be a group of tech focused people discussing woodworking.
Do you mean this?
https://www.columbia.edu/~ng2573/zuggybuggy_is_2scale4ios.pdf