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NeXTSTEP Release 3 Demo
Steve Jobs demos NeXTSTEP Release 3, showing the object-oriented development environment and UI that later became the basis of Mac OS X. Midway through he builds a database-backed GUI app with Interface Builder and Enterprise Objects Framework with almost no code.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN uses it as the classic example of rapid visual app building and of a polished early Jobs presentation, often with timestamps pointing to the database demo.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- blatherskyte
- Topic
- nextstep operating system demo
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 9
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2007–2016
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I thought Steve Jobs's NeXT demo from 1992-1993 was pretty impressive. [VIDEO] It certainly would have seemed space-age in 1992.
henning on Hacker News · 2007-04
In The greatest Demos/screencasts you've seenNot as relevant but I saw this video a while back: [VIDEO] It's interesting to see a young Steve Jobs perfecting his presentation style.
_frog on Hacker News · 2011-03
In Steve Jobs on Apple's brand strategy in 1997Relevant - this 20 year old video with Steve Jobs giving a demo of NeXTSTEP 3. I first saw this after having bought a Mac running OS X 10.2 and was surprised by how the user-facing stuff was still very similar to its roots (maybe …
ben1040 on Hacker News · 2012-12
In The legacy of NeXT lives on in OS X
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