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close the world, open the next

• dane-pgp 5y ago
  It's perhaps worth noting here that the tagline is actually stylised as: "Close the world, open the nExt."[0] with the capitalisation presumably being a reference to the company NeXT, founded by Steve Jobs.[1] [0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0500092/taglines https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0500092/taglines [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT
  • kitsunesoba 5y ago
    Seems likely, with how many other Apple-adjacent references are in the series (including Copland among another things). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copland_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copland_(operating_system)
    • Kim_Bruning 5y ago
      Here's a list of all the references that people found at the time (ish) https://www.cjas.org/~leng/apple-lain.htm https://www.cjas.org/~leng/apple-lain.htm