Steve Jobs is synonymous with Apple, as one of the tech giant’s visionary co-founders. However, during his hiatus from the company in the 1980s, Jobs also founded an equally ambitious electronics ...
Tim Berners-Lee used to say: “I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and—ta-da!—the World Wide Web.” So how did this “simple” invention happen? In March 1989, a ...
Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, was expelled from the management team in 1985 and left Apple to set up a new computer company called 'NeXT' and released its own computer 'NeXTcube' and its OS ...
Column On a Christmas Eve when nothing felt right, I lapsed into a deep yet disturbed sleep. I awoke to perceive a diffuse glow. Was it a smartphone notification? I opened my eyes. Three spectral ...
It is not actually as old as the Internet, but the first web page that emerged on the Internet is already 34 years old. It was developed in 1990 and can still be visited today. Who owns it then? That ...
A NeXTcube computer running the NeXTSTEP operating system. Simon Claessen / Flickr Today marks the 35th anniversary of the launch of NeXTSTEP, a computer operating system launched by Steve Jobs during ...
A plethora of notable early computers from the collection of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen are to be put up for auction. Auction house Christie's is putting up hundreds of items across three sales ...
Marking the 30th anniversary month of the launch of Apple's Newton MessagePad, the full, feature length "Love Notes to Newton" has been released on YouTube for free. In 2018, several of them produced ...
[Joren] recently did some work as part of an electronic music heritage project, and restored an 80s-era NeXTcube workstation complete with vintage sound card, setting it up with a copy of MAX, a ...
When you think of a bicycle and an Eddy, you’d be forgiven for thinking first of Eddy Merckx, one of the most successful competitive cyclists to ever live. But this bicycle, modified by [Tom Stanton] ...