In my usual ass-ish fashion, I must ask - is it the computer that changed the world, or was it the HTTP concept? Last I checked, you could view web pages on a Commodore 128 (albeit, in less than ideal fashion), so I humbly suggest the meticulously sculpted cube was merely the product used for the brilliant concept.
Then again, why is it that brilliant ideas always seem to begin with a Steve Jobs product? Damn you, Steve, and your attention to otherwise ridiculous details.
@OMG! Everyone is OMGing!: I just crack 'em open and disconnect the the case switch. You can either short the pins with a screwdriver or build a custom dealy.
And nobody who doesn't know the server needs to remain on should be able to get to the software shutdown option.
@FrankenPC: No, the Next system was written using Objective-C, which is an object-oriented version of C that was around long before Next (I wrote systems using it long before the Next came out, so I'm quite sure).
And Objective-C, as well as the Mac and Lisa, were pale imitations of the Xerox PARC Smalltalk system, which *was* the first truly object-oriented development environment, in the mid-seventies, decades before Next. It was a better development environment than the Next even then (although of course much slower).
Gibbilty: referencing all the little parts and pieces which serve as the inner workings of the internet, its organs if you will; also meaning soup-like components
Gobbilty: referencing the users of the internet, the consumers; also meaning eating your soup really fast
Goop: what binds the internet together, holding it firmly into a cohesive network of tubes; also a funky website from Gwyneth Paltrow
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And of course powering the internet would be a Mac lab circa 1993 filled with Mac Performas and a network that was a bitch and a half to administer.
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Then again, why is it that brilliant ideas always seem to begin with a Steve Jobs product? Damn you, Steve, and your attention to otherwise ridiculous details.
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The world has changed, yet still the same.
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And nobody who doesn't know the server needs to remain on should be able to get to the software shutdown option.
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And Objective-C, as well as the Mac and Lisa, were pale imitations of the Xerox PARC Smalltalk system, which *was* the first truly object-oriented development environment, in the mid-seventies, decades before Next. It was a better development environment than the Next even then (although of course much slower).
[en.wikipedia.org]
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And if you read what I wrote, you would see that I said that Objective-C was a pale imitation of Smalltalk, which does have frameworks.
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Preposterous!
/sarcasm
Fanbois man, there's no reasoning with them...
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... and all of that jargon means what? I'm not that advanced in Nerdease. :-P
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Gibbilty: referencing all the little parts and pieces which serve as the inner workings of the internet, its organs if you will; also meaning soup-like components
Gobbilty: referencing the users of the internet, the consumers; also meaning eating your soup really fast
Goop: what binds the internet together, holding it firmly into a cohesive network of tubes; also a funky website from Gwyneth Paltrow
Did that help?
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