Posts Tagged “History”

• OpenType Variable Fonts October 14, 2016
• A Mac OS 9 Odyssey October 11, 2016
• Rich Siegel Interview September 26, 2016
• Whatever Happened to the Hurd? August 26, 2016
• .NET/C# Generics History August 25, 2016
• Steve Jobs on Graphics Performance August 24, 2016
• The System 7.5 Watch August 20, 2016
• Learning From Apple’s Failures (3)August 13, 2016
• Modern Versions of Word Can’t Open Old File Formats August 13, 2016
• Seymour Papert, RIP August 13, 2016
• Twitter Verification August 12, 2016
• Kagi, RIP (1)August 1, 2016
• Verizon Acquires Yahoo (4)July 26, 2016
• Running System 1 on El Capitan July 15, 2016
• The Windows Shutdown Crapfest July 15, 2016
• Swift Playgrounds Aren’t HyperCard July 13, 2016
• The History of “This Web Site Is Well-crafted” Hints July 11, 2016
• Jefferson’s Pull Request July 4, 2016
• How AWS Came to Be July 3, 2016
• How Oracle’s Business As Usual Is Threatening to Kill Java July 2, 2016
• Interviews: Kare, Bezos, Musk, Felleisen, Gruber July 2, 2016
• Why Swift Ditched Tuple-to-Tuple Function Modeling July 1, 2016
• “I’d Like You to Police Each Other” June 30, 2016
• Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository June 30, 2016
• Vintage Macworld Magazine Library June 29, 2016
• The Dissertation Behind rsync June 24, 2016
• Alan Kay AMA June 22, 2016
• End of the Road for MacNN (1)June 20, 2016
• Apple File System (APFS) (8)June 17, 2016
• The Secret History of Mac Gaming June 2, 2016
• Every Default OS X Desktop Picture June 1, 2016
• Google : 2010s :: Microsoft : 1990s (5)May 27, 2016
• Separate, Support, Serve May 20, 2016
• Larry and Steve’s Plans to Save Apple May 16, 2016
• The Natural History of Palatino May 13, 2016
• Claude Shannon Turns 1100100 May 5, 2016
• Apple Officially Discontinues WebObjects May 5, 2016
• Intel Splits on Atom May 3, 2016
• Kuro5hin, RIP May 3, 2016
• Bill Atkinson Interview April 29, 2016
• Antitrust and Aggregation April 26, 2016
• Computer History Museum Honors Dave Cutler April 16, 2016
• Lessons Learned From 30 Years of MINIX (3)April 12, 2016
• NSSplitView Trademark Dispute (1)April 11, 2016
• Why There Is No Calculator on the iPad April 7, 2016
• Early Apple Retail Adventures April 4, 2016
• The Deep History of Your Apps April 3, 2016
• Regis McKenna’s 1976 Notebook April 2, 2016
• Andy Grove, RIP March 22, 2016
• 30 Pounds of Microsoft Office (3)March 15, 2016
• Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again? (1)March 14, 2016
• Intuit Sells Quicken to H.I.G. Capital March 11, 2016
• Ray Tomlinson, RIP March 7, 2016
• iPod History and iTunes for Windows March 1, 2016
• Not Too Late to Change February 19, 2016
• Cupertino’s Chief Chipmaker, Johny Srouji February 18, 2016
• AppleWorks and the Capriciousness of Nostalgia February 16, 2016
• The Secret Story Behind Apple’s “Lemmings” February 9, 2016
• A Conversation With Erik Spiekermann February 6, 2016
• 15 Years of VLC and VideoLAN (2)February 2, 2016
• Glider Pro on GitHub (1)January 30, 2016
• Meet iCloud’s Great-grandfather: iTools (1)January 30, 2016
• VMware Fusion (3)January 30, 2016
• Marvin Minsky, RIP January 25, 2016
• 7 Scandalous Weird Old Things About the C Preprocessor January 25, 2016
• Localized Hardware January 22, 2016
• Once Bitten (1)January 20, 2016
• Architecture of the Web Inspector January 15, 2016
• The Most Upgradable Portable Mac Ever (10)January 13, 2016
• The 15-Year History of iTunes (1)January 10, 2016
• Microsoft Solitaire Was Developed by a Summer Intern January 8, 2016
• Five Years of Mac App Store (1)January 7, 2016
• Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, iMovie ’08, and Final Cut Pro X December 17, 2015
• The First Spotlight Interface December 17, 2015
• The TTY Demystified December 4, 2015
• The Success of ARM December 3, 2015
• Surprising Complexity Inside Apple’s Power Adapter November 30, 2015
• An Ode to Kai’s Power Goo November 24, 2015
• Ranchero SpotLight November 24, 2015
• Dangers of NeXTSTEP Plists (3)November 24, 2015
• Gene Amdahl, RIP November 14, 2015
• How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name (1)November 11, 2015
• On Keyboards and Thinness (1)November 11, 2015
• George Boole: a 200-Year View November 10, 2015
• Chuck Forsberg, RIP November 3, 2015
• Reactions to the First iPod (2)October 27, 2015
• The Story of NetNewsWire October 26, 2015
• Sorkin and Boyle’s “Steve Jobs” October 23, 2015
• That Would Never Happen October 14, 2015
• FogBugz, JIRA, and Wasabi (3)October 13, 2015
• Why the Floppy Disk Is Still Used Today (1)October 11, 2015
• “What do you think?” (1)October 9, 2015
• Historical Photos October 9, 2015
• Alex King, RIP October 4, 2015
• Rosyna Needs Help September 24, 2015
• The Lost Apple Logos You’ve Never Seen September 22, 2015
• How to Turn iOS 9’s Keyboard Back to All Caps (2)September 19, 2015
• Electronic Arts’s Recent App Store Removals (3)September 13, 2015
• Computer Science Courses that Don’t Exist, But Should September 13, 2015
• Adrian Frutiger, RIP (2)September 13, 2015
• How and Why We Designed Lucida September 1, 2015
• A Salute to Solo Programmers (5)August 27, 2015
• Git as a Document Format August 22, 2015
• A Eulogy for Objective-C (2)August 18, 2015
• Steve Jobs’s Interview With Red Herring, 1996 August 18, 2015
• Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace August 15, 2015
• The Appsmiths (2)August 1, 2015
• Phasing Out Google+ (1)July 29, 2015
• Why JSON Doesn’t Have Comments July 28, 2015
• Web Design: The First 100 Years July 23, 2015
• A Complete History of Unix, in One GitHub Repo July 7, 2015
• How Crash Bandicoot Was Fit Into 2MB of RAM June 18, 2015
• Hermann Zapf, RIP (1)June 12, 2015
• Yahoo Pipes Shuts Down June 5, 2015
• What Happened to SourceForge? (1)June 4, 2015
• Web Decay Graph June 2, 2015
• 30 Years of Pac-Man May 25, 2015
• Hard Drive Icons Through the Ages May 21, 2015
• Firing Well (1)May 19, 2015
• Thanks, Ted Landau (2)May 19, 2015
• Verizon-AOL May 14, 2015
• Chat Wars May 9, 2015
• Claris History May 8, 2015
• Beyond Open Source May 6, 2015
• Video Interview With Mark Alldritt May 2, 2015
• Software, Psychedelics, and the Origins of OS X & iOS April 29, 2015
• Mythology (1)April 27, 2015
• Thanks (1)April 23, 2015
• Jony Ive and the Newton MessagePad 110 March 14, 2015
• Who Else Kinda Misses Their Zip Disks? (4)February 1, 2015
• Never Trust a Corporation to Do a Library’s Job January 31, 2015
• MPW, Carbon, and Building Classic Mac Apps on Yosemite January 25, 2015
• The Imitation Game (1)January 24, 2015
• The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols January 23, 2015
• How iOS Has Changed (1)January 23, 2015
• Organ Banked January 23, 2015
• Vintage Mac About Boxes January 17, 2015
• Old MS-DOS Games (1)January 13, 2015
• A Dozen Things Tren Griffin Learned From Steve Jobs About Business January 4, 2015
• NSPPL: Persistent Property Lists (1)December 15, 2014
• Apple’s First Employee: Bill Fernandez December 6, 2014
• Script Debugger’s 20th Anniversary (3)December 4, 2014
• Rhapsody Developer’s Guide (1)December 2, 2014
• Using C++ to Deliver Microsoft Office Across Different Platforms (4)November 29, 2014
• The Story of DeltaGraph November 25, 2014
• MPW’s About Box November 20, 2014
• Fire in the Valley, Third Edition November 7, 2014
• Peak Google October 23, 2014
• Remembering Macworld Expo (1)October 15, 2014
• The Source of Technote #2034 (6)October 8, 2014
• Brad Cox Interview (2009) October 6, 2014
• Facts and Thinking September 19, 2014
• A Brief Visual History of Apple Home Page Tabs September 13, 2014
• Ode to Susan Kare’s Chicago (2)August 24, 2014
• The Adobe Illustrator Story August 1, 2014
• The History of Civilization July 31, 2014
• Scrollbar History July 22, 2014
• OS X to iOS June 27, 2014
• System 7 to Carbon (1)June 25, 2014
• 20th Anniversary of QuickTake 100 June 22, 2014
• The Legacy of GOAL June 18, 2014
• The History of Android June 17, 2014
• Typography in 8 Bits: System Fonts May 30, 2014
• Rich Siegel on BBEdit May 22, 2014
• The Untold Story of Larry Page’s Incredible Comeback May 12, 2014
• What Happened at NewsGator May 12, 2014
• The Origin of Smalltalk’s Select, Reject, and Inject April 30, 2014
• BASIC at 50 (1)April 30, 2014
• WinFS, Integrated/Unified Storage, and Microsoft April 16, 2014
• Memories of Steve (2)April 14, 2014
• The Birth of Amazon.com (1)April 10, 2014
• 20th Anniversary of Netscape’s Founding (9)April 6, 2014
• How Gmail Happened April 1, 2014
• MacFixIt Is Gone (1)March 27, 2014
• Negotiating With Steve Jobs About WriteNow March 27, 2014
• MS-DOS and Word for Windows Source Code Published March 26, 2014
• Apple Engineer Recalls the iPhone’s Birth March 26, 2014
• How Was the PDF Format Created? (3)March 18, 2014
• Brøderbund Archives (1)March 6, 2014
• Unintentionally Hidden Dot-files March 4, 2014
• Working With Woz February 25, 2014
• An Illustrated History of objc_msgSend February 12, 2014
• Scriptnotes on Final Draft (2)February 10, 2014
• 30 Years of Mac (1)January 24, 2014
• The Demise of QuarkXPress January 24, 2014
• Kid Pix - The Early Years January 24, 2014
• Oral History of Adele Goldberg January 22, 2014
• Douglas Adams on Mac OS X 10.0 January 21, 2014
• How Does Apple Keep Secrets So Well? January 21, 2014
• “Doom” 20th Anniversary Stories January 10, 2014
• Why MacPaint’s Original Canvas was 416 Pixels Wide (1)January 10, 2014
• The Triumph and Tragedy of OS/2 (1)November 27, 2013
• History of the Browser User-Agent String November 6, 2013
• MacAddict Cover Discs Archive (1)November 6, 2013
• Why Array Indices Start at Zero (1)October 30, 2013
• How Java’s Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere October 29, 2013
• Masters of Doom October 18, 2013
• Apple’s “Skankphone” Was the iPhone’s Ugly Twin Brother September 26, 2013
• The History of the Trapper Keeper (1)September 20, 2013
• Walt Mossberg’s First WSJ Tech Column September 20, 2013
• How Steve Jobs Got Fired From Apple September 12, 2013
• The Creation of Missile Command August 28, 2013
• An Apple Bibliography August 17, 2013
• How I Created the Iconic iPhone Sound August 14, 2013
• Remembering the Apple Newton’s Prophetic Failure and Lasting Impact August 14, 2013
• 1983 Steve Jobs IDCA Speech July 30, 2013
• Argument and Buffer Etymology July 30, 2013
• BYTE Magazine Archive (3)July 28, 2013
• A Brief History of Test Frameworks June 19, 2013
• The Life and Death of Camino (1)May 31, 2013
• The Macintosh Finder, Then and Now (6)May 24, 2013
• The iPhone Home Button April 19, 2013
• Apple: Unfortunately, No Longer the Underdog (1)April 15, 2013
• Apple DOS April 3, 2013
• Universal Procedure Pointers March 31, 2013
• Hotline Revisited (1)March 31, 2013
• The Chequered History of MagSafe (3)March 14, 2013
• MacWrite and MacPaint, a Coral Reef January 24, 2013
• The History of the Scroll Wheel January 24, 2013
• Why Was “~” Chosen to Represent the Home Directory? January 22, 2013
• What It’s Really Like Working With Steve Jobs (1)January 22, 2013
• OMNI Magazine Archive January 3, 2013
• Steve Jobs at WWDC 1997 Q&A (3)June 5, 2011
• The Story of Oregon Trail March 18, 2011
• Woz’s Regret October 17, 2006
• A Brief History of Metrowerks March 7, 2006
• The Graphing Calculator Story December 22, 2004
• ClarisWorks History (2)January 19, 2003

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