File:Steve Jobs and the Rise and Fall of NeXT Part 1

Steve Jobs was an enormously influential figure in the history of personal computing, not only as a founder of Apple computer, but also as the man who significantly changed the way we experience computing, music, communications, and media.

But in between introducing the Macintosh in 1984 and the iMac in 1998, Jobs went through an interesting but rarely covered period in life where he was essentially fired from Apple and started a new computer company called NeXT. His goal was to repeat his success with the Macintosh and bring to market an entirely new platform that would go as far beyond the Macintosh as the Macintosh had gone beyond the IBM PCs.

I tried a couple new things editing this, and in light of a comment on a previous video in this overall PC history series, I did not add any background music.

This was a lot of fun to put together on a subject that has fascinated me for years, I hope you enjoy it!

Credits

NeXTCube CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=436453

NeXTStep OS By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34598118

Macintosh 128k By w:User:Grm wnr - Modifications of Image:Macintosh 128k.jpg and w:Image:Macintosh 128k No Text.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=519781

iMac CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=521646

iBook CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=496249

iPod By The original uploader was Rjcflyer@aol.com at English Wikipedia. - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Addihockey10 using CommonsHelper., CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12976762

iPhone By Rafael Fernandez - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63395591

iPad By Justin14 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25720064

G4 Cube CC BY 2.0, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9026142

Tim Berners-Lee By Creator:Levi Clarke - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53878695

NeXT Web Server By Coolcaesar at the English language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=395096

ID Logo By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51434380

MS-DOS logo By Microsoft - MS-DOS v1.25 and v2.0 Source Code. GitHub, Inc. Retrieved on 2018-11-19., MIT, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73370911

OS 211 Startup http://toastytech.com/guis/os211startup.png

Aardwolf By by Dkaeuferle = Dominik Käuferle - Originally from de.wikipedia; description page is (was) herefirst upload in de wikipedia on 21:56, 10. Apr. 2007 by Dkaeuferle (600 x 400 (71.528 Bytes) (Beschreibung = Erdwolf, Namib-Nord, Namibia, 2005, Quelle = selbst erstellt, Urheber = Dominik Käuferle, Datum = 08.06.2005, Genehmigung = GNU), CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1929313

NeXTSTEP OS Screenshots https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/openstep42

Amiga 500 By Bill Bertram - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=350965

Amiga 1000 By Original photo by Kaiiv (de.wikipedia), Editing by Pixel8 - http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Amiga_1000_PAL.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6642500

Amiga 4000 By Kaiiv - Self-photographed, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6642613

TextEdit By The original uploader was JollyRogerBay at English Wikipedia. - Screenshot taken by w:en:User:JollyRogerBay, BSD, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36430224

Chess By Apple Inc., The GNOME Project - Screen-capture, ASCL, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20224305

Apple II Photos http://www.oldcomputers.net/appleii.html

Apple III CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=205447

IBM PC 5150 By Ruben de Rijcke - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9561543

Andrea Cunningham By Hhwong - Taken at a book signing party at Northwestern University facilities in San FranciscoPreviously published: not previously published, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65072778

Many photos of Jobs and NeXT are taken from the great website, https://allaboutstevejobs.com/

Many photos of NeXT systems are taken from another interesting website https://oldcomputers.net/next-cube.html

NextStation “Pizza box” By Rama & Musée Bolo - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.0 fr, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36770097

By Marcin Wichary - Flickr: NeXTstation, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18296286

Mac IIfx https://www.oldcomputr.com/posts-about/apple/macintosh-iifx/

Deluxe Paint By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3237399

Atair ST CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=500910

Many NeXTSTEPOS screenshots https://simson.net/ref/NeXT/screenshots.htm