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A previously unpublished video from January 30, 1984 where Steve Jobs presents the new Macintosh personal computer to the Boston Computer Society. He starts off with some jabs at IBM, then follows up with the haymaker 1984 Macintosh commercial. He then goes into Jobs mode with tech specs and abundant hyperbole about how insanely great […]
But can it slice a tin can?
Douglas Engelbart recently passed away, leaving us an amazing legacy including inventing the mouse, and this almost impossible demo of our future. At the start of this presentation, later dubbed “the mother of all demos”, Engelbart issued this challenge to future generations who waste their days flinging pissed-off birds at delinquent swine: If, in your […]
In 1994, Knight-Ridder’s Information Design Lab, a newspaper company, published this video which very accurately predicts today’s tablets. Weigh under 2 pounds Portable Display is comparable to ink on paper Blend text, images, video and audio Part of our daily lives (yes) around the turn of the century (off by a decade) “We may still use computers to create […]
The PBS show “Computer Chronicles” produced an entire episode on the fledgling Internet, even though it was, “in fact, just a little glance at tip on the cyberspace iceberg.” Keywords in 1995: Usenet, Eudora, Archie, Pentium, Mbone, IUMA, CompuServ, FTP, world wide web, Mosaic browser, data encryption, bookmarks, homepage, HTML, HoTMetaL, URL, NSCA.
I attended my first SXSW Interactive this year, 26 years after the conference was founded. It was a much bigger event than I expected, but as the days progressed, I found SXSW to be approachable and manageable. The key for me was to lower my expectations that I could experience the complete south-by. You can […]
I switched to a Mac a year ago as my main work system. I choose a MacBook Pro 15″ over the MacBook Air because I needed the Ethernet port, wanted the ability to upgrade RAM and thought the optical drive would be useful. I don’t find the MacBook Pro to be too heavy in my […]
Here is a never before aired version of the Apple “Think Different” commercial narrated by Steve Jobs. Rest in peace, Mr. Jobs.
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