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23 entriesThe Story of AppStorey
AppStorey is a video Documentary and a three part series the rise of the post-war, general purpose digital computer — the computer we know today didn’t have to…
HistoryJun 2015Electronic Distribution. This article first published in print, Summer 1992
This article was first published in print in the AppWrapper Vol 2, No. 2 Summer, 1992 Electronic Distribution, Summer, 1992 printable PDF Document. Editor's No…
HistoryJul 2015NeXT Turns 30, Article explains the reason for AppStorey
Salvador Rodriguez blogs about the reason behind AppStorey and why this time is so historic. Jobs began work on NeXT in 1985 with the goal of creating the most…
HistoryJul 2015Electronic Recollections, By Ricard Carey
Richard Carey is an author and philosopher at large in Ashland Oregon today. In the early 1990's he was working for the startup that invented the first App Sto…
InterviewsJul 2015Alex Cone, master level software designer and NeXT expert interviews for AppStorey
July 2015, New York City. Alex Cone, master level software designer and NeXT expert interviews for AppStorey People who just don’t fundamentally care if it’s g…
InterviewsJul 2015Wall St Equity Trading Software Veteran, Hadar Pedhazur talks Steve Jobs, NeXT and advanced computing to AppStorey
July 19, 2015, New York City Wall St Equity Trading Software Veteran, Hadar Pedhazur talks Steve Jobs, NeXT and advanced computing to AppStorey Hadar Pedhazur …
HistoryJul 2015Did the App Store make the iPhone, or did the iPhone make the App Store?
Did the App Store make the iPhone, or did the iPhone make the App Store? Now before you point out that however sophisticated your iPhone, it’s hardly inventing software just yet…
HistoryAug 2015One Hundred Billion Downloads Later, The First App Store
The First App Store, One Hundred Billion Downloads Later Jesse Tayler, App Store inventor, demonstrates the Electronic AppWrapper on his NeXT Computer. The App…
HistoryMar 2016The Earliest Web; The Story of NetSurfer
It’s hard to imagine a web browser without even the most fundamental features we associate with a web browser of today. Take the URL bar, a back-button or a bo…
HistoryMar 2016Andrew Stone was in the App Store 20 years before you
Today Andrew C. Stone might best be known for his iOS app Twittelator selling millions of copies on the iOS App Store. But in 1990, Andy was building and selli…
HistoryApr 2016The Earliest Web; The Story of SpiderWoman
Firefox, Safari, Opera, Explorer or Chrome… today we pick our favorite web-browser as if it’s our preferred chocolate out of the box. And we take for granted t…
InterviewsApr 2016Jesse Tayler talks App Store and NeXTSTEP with AppStorey
In the early days of personal computing, there were a lot of different computers, each seemed to have a place in the world. Until one. The NeXT Computer. Octob…
InterviewsMay 2016On Apple’s 40th Anniversary, Eric Bergerson tells how Apple was built upon NeXT Object Oriented Technology
Today is April 1, 2016 —April Fools Day, and Apple is now 40 years old. It is no longer Apple Computer, but simply Apple. CEO Tim Cook says Apple is at “childh…
InterviewsMay 2016Dean Zarras Tells AppStorey how NeXT first brought Object Oriented Tools to Financial Algo-Trading Systems.
Dean Zarras is a computer scientist, software engineer and business entrepreneur. Today, Dean is CEO and Founder of ClearFactr an online spreadsheet innovation…
UncategorizedJun 2016Fred Lunau tells AppStorey about Mission Critical Custom Applications and advanced NeXT technologies, the same tools used to make iPhone Apps today
Today, Fred Lunau is an eLearning Technologist and an experienced Technical Sales Manager in the eastern United States, but in 1990 —Fred was working as a Sale…
InterviewsAug 2016Ken Anderson tells AppStorey about the moment NeXT was brought to Phibro International Commodities Trading
“Small teams make the software that makes a difference in our world, not big ones” — Ken Anderson for AppStorey Today, Ken Anderson is a successful mobile, and…
InterviewsFeb 2017Charles L. Perkins Tells AppStorey That Parents Just Don’t Understand (Steve Jobs's NeXT Computer)
It’s 1988, there is no web to surf and if you switched on a Radio you might just hear Will Smith as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air sing his hit single “Parents Ju…
InterviewsAug 2017Bebo White Talks High-Energy Physicists and History’s Greatest Computer
Today, Bebo White is a physicist and Departmental Associate Emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, but in 1990, he was helping define how computer…
InterviewsJan 2018On the 11th Anniversary of Steve Jobs introducing the iPhone, Paul Jones tells AppStorey how (and why) it all began
What's free, and what's for sale. It’s 1990, there’s no Web to surf and to get software, you have to drive to a store called Egg Head, a store where zero Apps …
InterviewsMay 2018Michael Baldwin talks Beauty, Steve Jobs & The Pursuit Of Elegance for AppStorey
Steve Jobs is known for elegant hardware but in the case of the NeXT Computer the beauty was more than skin deep. The NeXT Cube was a beautiful object whose op…
InterviewsSep 2018Think Insanely Simple. Ken Segall explains the hidden value of simplicity for AppStorey.
Today, Ken Segall is known as the guy who gave Steve Jobs the "i" for the iMac, but in 1990 Ken was helping brand and market the most advanced computer Steve h…
InterviewsJun 2019AppStorey talks with Steve Green about Steve Jobs, The Smithsonian and how a pizza with basil became the first food delivered via the web
Today Steve Green is a lifelong pizza industry authority and the publisher of PMQ Pizza Magazine , available in print or at the PMQ website. Steve Jobs made th…
InterviewsJan 2023AppStorey sits down with ChatGPT to talk computer history
What follows is an interview conversation with ChatGPT “I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes… you usually go through a period where eve…