Drunkenblog turns back time with this classic Steve Jobs demo of NeXTSTEP 3.0. I especially enjoy the small digs he gets in about the PC and Mac.
Back in 1994 I had moved from Salt Lake to Seattle right out of college and took a job at Wolfe Internet as a support technician. Our entire staff worked on NeXT systems. With their svelte looks and gorgeous black tint I thought they were the coolest looking computers I’d ever seen. I didn’t realize at the time how advanced and ahead of the curve they were in many areas. My initial impressions with the web at that time came through Netscape Navigator on that NeXT machine. Programs were quick to launch. Websites would magically jump to the screen and everything felt within reach and intuitive. It wasn’t until I was forced to use a Windows 95 machine that I realized how lucky I’d been to have a NeXT. Unfortunately, back then you could purchase 8–10 no name PCs for the price of one NeXT system.
Looking back at NeXT it’s easy to see the influence it had on Apple’s OSX such as the inclusion of the “Dock” made popular by OSX but first found in NeXT. Those were some very fun times to be involved in the computer industry.
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