RIP Steve Jobs
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- Hombre_Lobo0
This is actually pretty awesome. And i am not a big apple fan, you apple fans will wet your pants -
"Steve Jobs went on to found his own computer company NeXt – a black cube computer that ran a UNIX operating system.
It was on a NeXt machine that the British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee wrote the protocols, procedures and languages that added up to the World Wide Web, http, HTML, browsers, hyperlinks ... in other words the way forward for the internet, the most significant computer program ever written was done on a NeXt computer. That is a feather in Steve Jobs’s cap that is not often celebrated and indeed one that he himself signally failed to know about for some time.
After having written www, Berners-Lee noticed that there was a NeXt developers conference in Paris at which Steve Jobs would be present. Tim packed up his black cube, complete with the optical disk which contained arguably the most influential and important code ever written and took a train to Paris.
It was a large and popular conference and Tim was pretty much at the end of the line of black NeXt boxes. Each developer showed Steve Jobs their new word-processor, graphic programme and utility and he slowly walked along the line, like the judge at a flower show nodding his approval or frowning his distaste. Just before he reached Tim and the world wide web at the end of the row, an aide nudged Jobs and told him that they should go or he’d be in danger of missing his flight back to America. So Steve turned away and never saw the programme that Tim Berners-Lee had written which would change the world as completely as Gutenberg had in 1450. It was a meeting of the two most influential men of their time that never took place. Chatting to the newly knighted Sir Tim a few years ago he told me that he had still never actually met Steve Jobs."
That's one serious less well-known moment in history.
- New to you, this a well known facternexbcn
- new to me FO SHO player.Hombre_Lobo
- old newsAncillary
- i didn't know that. thanks for sharing.instrmntl
- Hombre_Lobo0
Stephen Fry writes about Steve Jobs
http://webcache.googleuserconten…
Such a good writer, you couldn't ask for someone better to write this article.
- dbloc0
Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs
- PonyBoy0
nooooooo!!!
- DaveO0
My girlfriend said a really candid thing today, just on email – "So sad about Steve Jobs.....makes you wonder if the future stops happening for a while"
- omg0
- utopian0
^^^
Wozniak is the only person with the enthusiasm,
credibility and personality to lead and save Apple for
it's likey doom!- he rides a segway. enough saidJSK
- he built the first Mac, 'nuff saidmonospaced
- <sureshot
- Chairman of the board.kgvs72
- utopian0
Gladwell's Outliers: Timing is Almost Everything
The new book offers Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs and Microsoft founder Bill Gates as an example of how a lucky birthdate, among other things, portends success.
Coincidence? Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen was born in 1953, Apple (AAPL) founder Steve Jobs in 1955, and Sun Microsystems (SUNW) founders Bill Joy and Scott McNealy in 1954. All of these Silicon Valley pioneers succeeded not just on their extraordinary talent but also because they had the right opportunities at exactly the right time.
- fresnobob0
Bummer... RIP, dude!
- JuniorSenior0
- ashton kutcher is tech savy investor i heardasohr
- no no no, that's Noah Wylie :Pmonospaced
- pillhead0
R.I.P
- mg330
More banter from my Apple hating friend at work:
"They're overpriced and you're basically paying for an OS."
I love the lack of acknowledgment to brilliant product design, and a multitude of innovative processes, construction techniques, and environmentally conscious efforts.
- Ask him to imagine how awful Windows would be if Steve & Apple never existed.nb
- I want to punch your coworkers for their idiocy and ignorancemonospaced
- it's just one guy mono. you could take him.mg33
- moldero0
R.I.P.
- JSK0
Did he ever get to finish his dream house that city council / preservationists blocked for years?
- not sure,
I hope they'll finish the apple spaceship campus thoughgeorgesIII - He didn't.
And they will.Handel
- not sure,