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by mattl 1y ago
And every NeXT machine came with an email waiting in your inbox out of the box from sjobs@next.com complete with Lip Service voice message from Steve Jobs. Of course you likely had no immediate way to reply to an internet email address like
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by mattl 1y ago
For a while a few years ago they had it misconfigured and you could browse apple.com at next.com -- so pages like next.com/ipad worked. https://web.archive.org/web/20130301092249/http://www.next.c...
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by mattl 1y ago
At one point he asks someone in the front row if EOF is patented, and then blurts out "software patents are evil" amongst other things. Really refreshing to see.
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by mattl 1y ago
AFAIK, WebObjects is still in use inside Apple, but also Project Wonder and WOLips have kept the tooling active (it all stopped working after Apple depreciated the Obj-C/Java bridge) and modern libraries for WebObjects.
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by mattl 1y ago
Yeah, a small anecdote on their blog after 34 years on the job. Does not seem like worship at all.
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by mattl 1y ago
Hayman did a lot of WWDC presentations of WebObjects which was the only thing really keeping NeXT alive prior to the merger. He mentions elsewhere that towards the end Jobs was mostly at Pixar and NeXT was reduced to selling $50,000 WebObje
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by mattl 1y ago
And I'm sure it was the responsibility of a single person editing /etc/aliases in Emacs, not a big drawn out process too.
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by mattl 1y ago
Where are you seeing geek hero worship here?
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by mattl 1y ago
Did you get a reply?
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by mattl 1y ago
Steve Hayman, long time NeXT/Apple employee who just retired last week from Apple having started in 1993 with NeXT. His WebObjects demo from 2001 is one of the most entertaining tech demos I've ever seen https://www.you
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by mattl 1y ago
I worked at a place that sold its products in the US and Canada and didn't sell them elsewhere. In a handful of other countries a third party supplier was distributing them, but most of the world couldn't buy them. The website was
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From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."(blog.hayman.net)
1209 points by mattl 1y ago|292 comments
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by mattl 1y ago
French fries don’t travel well.
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by mattl 1y ago
> `if NS4 else all-others-including-IE` Yeah, certainly saw that. Plone which inspired Wikipedia's CSS has .netscape4 class used all over the place, which is probably still all over https://fsf.org despite the fact I sto
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by mattl 1y ago
Well, not a particular site but the various websites of Wikimedia. I don't know why you think macOS usage is so low. People also tend to hang on to a Mac for far longer than a Windows laptop and especially a Chromebook.
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by mattl 1y ago
While Pokemon is owned by the Pokemon Company, the trademarks to all the Pokemon characters are owned by Nintendo. https://www.pokemon.com/us/legal/information
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by mattl 1y ago
https://archive.is/yxS1w
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by mattl 1y ago
https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#desktop... 2025-04-27 * 61.8% Windows * 28.7% Mac OS X * 4.2% Linux * 1.98 Chrome OS * 0.98 Ubuntu
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by mattl 1y ago
Lots of people with Hackintoshes.
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by mattl 1y ago
Do you remember how different layer was from div? I’m struggling to remember now.
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by mattl 1y ago
IIRC Layers (ie. the layer tag) became the div tag FWIW.
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by mattl 1y ago
What if you change the user agent in Safari via the Debug menu? Same?
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by mattl 1y ago
WordPress.com doesn't support many of the plugins out there (or at least not on the price tiers I can see) -- but I happily used it for https://librefm.wordpress.com for a number of years. Of course, WordPress.com is update
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by mattl 1y ago
You don't need a server for HTML to work, I can just hand you a USB stick/floppy disk/MO disk for your NeXT with HTML files on it.
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by mattl 1y ago
> What's the ML in HTML stand for? I always assumed it stood for my initials.
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by mattl 1y ago
A lot of early HTML was about taking the output of a different system such as a mainframe and putting that output into HTML. Lots of gateways between systems.
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by mattl 1y ago
Buy a Mac and buy a ThinkPad. Run Windows and Linux on the ThinkPad. Learn a bit about them all. Make sure you can write words just as well as you can write code.
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by mattl 1y ago
Once again wishing Mozilla just did the one thing it can do better than anyone else: be the reference web browser. I don't need a VPN, or AI tools, or an email provider. I can get all of those from anyone. There's still no way to
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by mattl 1y ago
It's happened more than once to me!
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by mattl 1y ago
Someone is using the name of an existing invention for the latest AI slop. Sad but doesn’t surprise me.

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