Filed under: Steve Jobs, Apple History
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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
bill said 6:06PM on 9-16-2008
Yeah, but who's the guy in the picture?
(Sorry...bad joke).
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vagvoba said 6:07PM on 9-16-2008
He looks a lot like George Costanza.
http://bp2.blogger.com/_ZIvg_I3yHx0/RyZByOkyrUI/AAAAAAAAA1g/dTQGlqCdGNU/s1600-h/george_costanza029.jpg
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bill said 6:12PM on 9-16-2008
I've always said that and no one gets it...
David said 6:53PM on 9-16-2008
Apple just wouldn't be much without Jobs! Too bad Woz isn't there anymore!
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juan said 9:07PM on 9-16-2008
today is mexican independence day as well
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shakeboy2k said 9:11PM on 9-16-2008
Cinco de Mayo is Mexican independence. Doi!
(that's a joke)
Tony Bowman said 10:22PM on 9-16-2008
i remember fondly using Litestep as my shell replacement in Windows 95/98, and Litestep was a clone of NeXTStep.
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alfaskop said 5:24PM on 9-17-2008
Oh.. 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 :-)
Tony Bowman said 6:42PM on 9-17-2008
yeah...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.
pabjvar said 11:57PM on 9-16-2008
Oh yeah! And today is my birthday too!
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bob said 3:40AM on 9-17-2008
Is my birthday too.
Unknown said 1:59PM on 9-18-2008
"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?
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Frank Lowney said 6:41PM on 9-17-2008
So NeXT was a very effective weapon, a Trojan Horse. It conquered Apple quite handily -- and aren't we glad it did.
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