Interpersonal Computing Demo 1 of 4

[jorgemarcellos]

1 person dislikes is Bill Gates !

[jesusvv88]

What year was this???

[MacCoco99]

Anybody that doubts that Steve Jobs was a visionary should watch these demos. Most of what he demonstrated on the NeXT computer is now standard on every platform, nowhere more integrated than on the Mac OS X, of course.

[allseevid]

He was a real visionary putting these ads on youtube..marketing for free!

[MoldytoasterMedia]

Thank God i live in the future. And my computer doesn't have graphics like that.

[oarmas]

In those times I used "pine", a text only mail reader.

[igeekone]

Steve was extremely forward thinking and knew exactly what people wanted before they knew what they wanted. He's the greatest tech visionary.

[zhaytee]

DOOM was created on NeXT hardware.

[jeffsheldon]

It's hard for people today to realize how groundbreaking this was. Sure there was e-mail at the time, but it was almost exclusively managed in ascii text mode and used mainly by universities and military installations. Even some of what Steve's talking about here is more empowering than what we use today (this may have been based on RTF since it pre-dates the adoption of HTML some years later). It's funny how much of the OS X e-mail client still retains the look and feel of this program.

[hellagorilla]

You hit "Send" and then "forward." Completely intuitive.

[DDsyr]

hey uhh... check this out and get back to me. thanks.

[winemeister]

They were amazing machines. Last year I sold 3 of them - 2 Cubes and 1 NeXTStation Turbo. I thought I got good money for them, but I think they just went up in price!

It was amazing that, in 1990 I had a program called Simple Simon. Simon was a voice activated program - ran in the background - and if I wanted to shout a program I'd say "Simon, close Draw". I would get a "thumbs up" from animated Simon, and Draw would close.

Steve didn't have boundaries or obstacles, he didn't see them at all.

[luvitluvitbaby]

R.I.P. Steve Jobs

[taroctg]

Brilliant! Steve had always been way ahead of time.

[djmomocrx]

My tribute to NeXT computers , I rename my home made PC ... NeXT , A Phenom x6 procesors, Radeon HD6850 in a NZXT Vulcan case .

Steve Jobs: Good artists copy great artists steal

[eyepatchinc]

so this was more for networking with other users of the same interest right: like all the employees in an office building for example? still pretty amazing for 1988. much of the on screen interface looks pretty much the same today.. if it works, why fix it?

[freeedom22]

From what year is this ?

[alanip]

Tim Berners Lee (I have to hate iPhone for the auto correction sometimes) ... :)

[alanip]

@sparkey989 worldwideweb, the 1st web browser, is written by Tim Berbers Lee in 1990 entirely on NeXT computer. Pls Google.

[pzzpprouductions]

Just like OS X

[izne]

@pzzpprouductions NeXT Step is OS X direct ancestor. Actually, source code from NeXT Step times is still used in Mac OS X and iOS today ;)

[SNK038]

The man hasn't changed his clothes in 20 years.

[crocotone]

I own a Color Station with 16Mb Ram, and 17" Monitor. What a pretty machine!

[adryanv]

Here we have the foundation of OSX

[chinarut]

dude - after seeing this - why the hell does Number and Pages not work like he's demonstrating?!?

[N3rm]

Because he's using Lotus and Word Perfect.

Both 3rd Party applications.

[chinarut]

given how successful he is sharing the "big picture" on the NeXT, look fwd to seeing these 3rd party features get folded into iWork - any bets it will happen in iWork '10? ;-)

[AmazingAaron1]

"Hi for those who don't know me I'm Steve Jobs" LOL!

[fritzov]

This was a bit before Steve Jobs took over the world.

[Votator2009]

the OSX Mail App doesn't have a voice recording feature :-(

[wintoons]

When was this made?

[marlls1989]

Visionary, what he came by interpersonal computer came for real with the Internet.

[macpac22]

wow its the dock!

[ja5cleary]

wow - what a visionary he is!

[tftmc]

my first "interpersonal comp use" was in the late 80s with the BBS systems, and a phone on a modem...those who know what i'm talking about. Then I moved from Win 2.0, to the breakthrough Multitasking, and networking Win 3.11 for Workgroups!!! That was the early 90s cream dream...lol

And I love the part where they say "Our new SCSI connector"...hahahahahaha!

This is freaking awesome.

[Moses649]

Staggering that this was around in 1990, when most people were labouring with DOS or Windows 3.0.

You can clearly see the roots of OS X.

[EuroCarfan00]

this is rare video!

[vajra23]

Don't forget that WorldWideWeb was written on a NeXT...

[sparkey989]

@vajra23 No, it wasnn't. The world wide web was "written" in the 80s.

[mystermoores]

@vajra23 Yupp, by a British man at CERN, appropriate really with the demonstration of the European languages

[izne]

@vajra23 and Quake :D

[skillzdatkillzy]

Amazing how advanced the technology is in this bad boy. Apple is lost without guidance from Steve.

[skillzdatkillzy]

This is a hoot. It's like Steve put a wig on.

[MacXpert74]

Impressive stuff, taking into consideration that this was before most people had ever heard of the internet or email. I think this must have been the first system that allowed you to put images, sound and file attachments in a e-mail. But sending a e-mail like that with a 14k4 modem they used back then must have been painfully slow :)

[aufsturz]

ethernet LAN, not 14k modems. it was fast :)

[MacXpert74]

Yeah, your probably right. The use of this e-mail system was likely limited to internal network use only.

[zettaishonen]

NeXT really is, an astounding company. :)

[Jaggabone]

@zettaishonen ; WAS an astounding company and Apple benefited immensely

[discolando]

@zettaishonen You mean *was* an astounding company.

[cMac0801]

@zettaishonen NeXT was an astounding company

Apple bought it in the 90ths

[vahnx1337]

That mail program looks way ahead of it's time.