History

HistoryJun 2015

The 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 2015

Electronic 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 2015

NeXT 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 2015

Electronic 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…

HistoryJul 2015

Did 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 2015

One 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 2016

The 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 2016

Andrew 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 2016

The 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…