Today's a big day for Steve
Fun fact: September 16 is the day in 1985 that Steve Jobs left Apple, and also the same day in 1997 that he returned to Apple as then-iCEO.
Jobs first left after CEO John Sculley ousted him from Apple's board of directors after both had tried to be "co-CEOs."
Jobs also filed papers that same day in 1985 founding NeXT, the company that he intended to use as a weapon against Apple. Instead, Apple wound up acquiring NeXT for $400 million in 1996. Parts of the NeXT operating system, NeXTStep, eventually became the underpinnings of Mac OS X.
[Via Wired.]
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Fun fact: September 16 is the day in 1985 that Steve Jobs left Apple, and also the same day in 1997 that he returned to Apple as then-iCEO....
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So NeXT was a very effective weapon, a Trojan Horse. It conquered Apple quite handily -- and aren't we glad it did.
September 17 2008 at 6:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply"Jobs first left after CEO John Sculley ousted him from Apple's board of directors after both had tried to be "co-CEOs.""
I might be going crazy, but is that a complete sentence?
Oh yeah! And today is my birthday too!
September 16 2008 at 11:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIs my birthday too.
i remember fondly using Litestep as my shell replacement in Windows 95/98, and Litestep was a clone of NeXTStep.
September 16 2008 at 10:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOh.. i remember those days of win95 with litestep.. such customization! even thou i wont buy a wintel box now i look back at my youth and misses it a little :-)
September 17 2008 at 2:16 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyyeah...my group of friends spend a great deal of time trying to wow each other with themes we created. hell, we used to have theme creating parties for Litestep.
kind of lost interest in that level of customization after a year or two, though, especially after Litestep forked or whatever.
today is mexican independence day as well
Cinco de Mayo is Mexican independence. Doi!
(that's a joke)
Apple just wouldn't be much without Jobs! Too bad Woz isn't there anymore!
September 16 2008 at 6:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHe looks a lot like George Costanza.
http://bp2.blogger.com/_ZIvg_I3yHx0/RyZByOkyrUI/AAAAAAAAA1g/dTQGlqCdGNU/s1600-h/george_costanza029.jpg
I've always said that and no one gets it...
September 16 2008 at 6:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYeah, but who's the guy in the picture?
(Sorry...bad joke).
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