The first server on the world wide web was maybe the most useful outcome of NeXT. Yes, the first website was published December 20th 1990 on a NeXT computer – of all things.
While the NeXT computers didn't become the next big brand in computers, it literally was the first computer serving the next big thing in humanity: the world wide web.
So grateful that I can use it today. So fatefoolish that "modern" "social" "networks" discourage the use of hyperlinks and are actually way worse than the original web, from that perspective.
Web 2.0?
Web 3.0?
Web K.O.
"Had a little now I have lot,
but I'm still Johnny from the blog."
"Who let the blogs out?!"
Weblog. A logbook on the web.
That's how it started... ...and that's how it will be after we broke out of these stupid walled gardens again.
Yes, they are beautiful gardens, but have you ever tasted the
WILD WILD WEB?
It's wild.
It's alive.
And it's growing.
And yes – this is a fucking hyperlink – linking you right out of this walled garden:
Inventor of the World Wide Web:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
First server created on a NeXT computer by Steve Jobs' NeXT Inc:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT_Computer
NeXT logo designed by Paul Rand and sold to Steve Jobs for 100k $ without any revisisions, feedback-loops or questions asked. Pay 100k, get logo, use it or not, it's done:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rand
Here's a link to the story on and video of the logo book Paul Rand used to present the new logo to Steve and the NeXT team:
https://www.logodesignlove.com/next-logo-paul-rand
And here's a link to the full NeXT logo presentation book:
https://www.paulrand.design/work/Logo-Presentation-Books.html#images-135
How do you like your rabbitholes?
Yes.