Steve Jobs 18 years ago

John Gruber dug up these 1990 videos somewhere on the dusty shelves of his archive and, of course, digitized. Steve Jobs spends one of many, so-called. “Chalk talk” (I'm afraid to translate incorrectly) with NeXT employees.

There is really a lot of interest in these videos: Jobs is much less cautious in expressions; the difficulty in entering NeXT into the developed workstation market and fighting SUN (which shows Steve as a great marketer, few people even understood the words “Macintosh marketplace”); no mention of the Internet, except for the words about the "excellent networking capabilities of NeXT machines." The last moment, although it can be explained by the year of video recording, is still surprising. 20 years ago, we were interested in making computers communicate only within the same building, without even thinking about a worldwide network.
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via Boing-Boing