You know you are getting older when you read stories about history, and have played a very minor part in them.
- Apple sales staff were in Hawaii in 1996 when Gasee came to visit Gil Amelio (it was the Asia-Pacific Sales Conference). We didn’t see him as he "flew in under the radar" of the media and employees.
- I remember Ellen Hancock asking the internal crowd about OS alternatives. I spoke positively about Unix, and Solaris. Re-reading the history… I didn’t help out much!
- Seeing a photograph of Rhapsody running on a Power Mac from the NeXT campus in March 1997.
- WebObjects. What the RoR crowd now think of as the pinnacle of MVC (model-view-controller) on the web just echoes NeXT’s OpenStep UI development from the late 1980s.
- The 1997 MacWorld conference in San Francisco (which I attended, including the now-famous keynote) with Woz and Steve Jobs as guest speaker was a major love-in