I was there, at that announcement in 1996. It was the only time I saw Steve Jobs speak. His cult was pretty much not a cult then, and it was pretty hard to unde

I was there, at that announcement in 1996. It was the only time I saw Steve Jobs speak. His cult was pretty much not a cult then, and it was pretty hard to understand what he was talking about, but of course a short time afterward we were all talking about and building db-backed websites (and my career was based on it for a long time). The prescience was always there.