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I still find a lot of joy from messing around in system releases from this time period. Watching the evolution of NeXTSTEP/Openstep, Yellow Box, Rhapsody and M
by itomato 9y ago
I still find a lot of joy from messing around in system releases from this time period.
Watching the evolution of NeXTSTEP/Openstep, Yellow Box, Rhapsody and Mac OS X has been just about as rewarding as I had hoped.
The benefit of UNIX overlaid with a friendly, usable UI is as promising now as it was then.
I just wish I had been able to invest more when AAPL was at @ $18.00.
- rubicon33 9y agoThis sadly seems all too common... Once people finally have money to invest, buy a home, etc... The prices are suddenly much higher.
- wmf 9y agoThere are good investments out there today but we just don't know what they are yet.
- vasilipupkin 9y agobitcoin?
- sametmax 9y agoCrypto in general if you manage to cash out before the bubble bursts. But it can be next month or in 5 years so good luck.
- mikestew 9y agoYeah, same thing I said over twenty years ago. Yet here I am with an assload of money in the brokerage account, and a house that has tripled in value since we bought it. AAPL at $18 was still a crap shoot, you don’t hear anyone going on about how well their pets.com stock worked out. But AAPL at $30? At $100 pre-split? There was still plenty of money to be made on AAPL above $18, and after AAPL had established that they were not going anywhere. I had some AAPL @ $17, IIRC, but most of my money made on AAPL was long after that price point. And that’s just an example, buying opportunities are everywhere, the trick is separating the AAPLs from the PETS. (sorry, I tried to find a dot.boom company that sold oranges online so as to have an appropriate comparison, but failed.) Housing? If you’re complaining about SV, I have no help for you, that place is nuts. Everywhere else, generally, isn’t any worse than when we bought our first house 25 years ago. But once you’re in and can make the payment, the numbers just get bigger as time goes on, as your house price is going to be relative to those around you.
- sah2ed 9y ago> (sorry, I tried to find a dot.boom company that sold oranges online so as to have an appropriate comparison, but failed.) Webvan? They did the online groceries thing, crashed and burned then got bought by Amazon.
- mikestew 9y agoAh, WebVan, one of the many dot.bombs I missed when they went under. I’m sure Kozmo would have brought me an orange, too. But I was shooting for a company whose stock symbol would have logically been ORNG or summat. :-) “We bring you only the freshest, organically-grown...”
- qubex 9y agoI bought at about $20... and sold at about $100... heh... in hindsight, that’s even more painful.
- ssharp 9y agoThat doesn't sound so dramatic unless you're talking about pre-split prices :) AAPL split in 2 in 2005 and had a big 7:1 split in 2014. Pre-2005 unadjusted prices are 14x! I do remember the days of $10-20 AAPL in 2003/4 when I first started using Macs. Personally, I got out during the 2008 3Q crash and missed out on the huge recovery, somewhere in the 9x range on those shares from when I sold to what they're worth today :(
- qubex 9y agoI went though the first split, so that $100 is actually equivalent to $200, and that is literally why I chose to sell: I thought to myself ”the market price is now ten times higher than when you purchased, don’t be greedy, take the nine-fold windfall and be content”. It was sound advice to have from one’s own counsel, but... in hindsight I’ve regretted it ever since, it just makes me cringe.
- pfarnsworth 9y agoDon't worry about it. You would have sold is at $100 and then regretted not holding it longer. It's a game you can't win. You could say the same thing about not buying BTC at $1 and selling at $20,000.