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I am especially glad for the NeXTWORLD magazine archive[0], which provides an insight into the tone and priorities of computer people "back then"--not too long
by gavmor 3y ago
I am especially glad for the NeXTWORLD magazine archive[0], which provides an insight into the tone and priorities of computer people "back then"--not too long ago, but the culture has shifted.
Flipping to a random article, I came across mention of "BackSpace, a shareware program developed by NeXT employee Samuel Streeper," and dropped that into a quick web search, bringing up a demonstration of the BackSpace screensaver program[1]. Delightful!
0. https://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Articles/NeXTWORLD/ https://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Articles/NeXTWORLD/
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpyRYdzmtoo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpyRYdzmtoo
- xp84 3y agoLooking at old NeXT stuff as a current Mac user is funny, because here and there you spot something that has clearly been brought over nearly intact from 30 years ago. Like the color picker in that video! And I'm sure the ⌘T font pane, still used here and there, has the same origin.
- WillAdams 3y agoYes, it does, though it's kind of nice that it added a nifty feature where if collapsed to the minimum vertical height it become a line of drop-down menus to pick typeface and attributes and size.
- xp84 3y agoHey, thanks! I wonder how many years/decades that little feature's been there without me ever knowing it!
- WillAdams 3y agoIt's been there since the early days of Mac OS X --- during one UI flamewar on usenet on either comp.sys.next.advocacy or comp.sys.mac.advocacy I suggested it as a way to address the perception of "wasted" space and it showed up (probably coincidentally) in the next iteration.