« on: May 08, 2014, 02:31:51 PM »
Oh if only there'd been someone who could have conceived of hyper-media in a networked computer environment with a point and click interface. Thank God that Steve Jobs invented it all in 1983. Prior to that, we didn't even compute, we just beat rocks against each other hoping there was enough iron or tin in them to cause a spark that might leap to another rock, and so-on. Then the son of heaven descended upon us, having caused computers to literally condense from the very essence of his thoughts and graced us with a user interface literally no-one had ever dreamed of before.
Huh? Who said anything about Steve Jobs coming up with that? Bloodline was referring to the OOness of Next(Open)Step. Jobs was a fan of such an approach. I recall reading that Jobs mentioned that out of his visit to Xerox, he realised years later that not the GUI or networking was the most important aspect - rather it was the OO paradigm it was all built upon and the demo of Smalltalk-80 he was given.
No one said he invented it. He just wrapped up awesome concepts in a pretty cool package which thankfully survived into today's OS X / iOS systems.
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