File:Steve Jobs Speech (1990) - Presenting NeXT and NeXTSTEP (1 of 2)

Steve Jobs presents NeXT and NeXTStep Highlits in San Farncisco (09/18/1990). See more at: http://youtu.be/jpHhU0hvxEI

NeXT was founded in 1985 by Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs, after being forced out of Apple, along with a few of his co-workers. NeXT introduced the first NeXT Computer in 1988, and the smaller NeXTstation in 1990. Sales of the NeXT computers were relatively limited, with estimates of about 50,000 units shipped in total. Nevertheless, its innovative object-oriented NeXTSTEP operating system and development environment were highly influential. Apple purchased NeXT on December 20, 1996 for $429 million and 1.5 million shares of Apple stock, and much of the current OS X and iOS operating systems are built on the OPENSTEP foundation. The first NeXT computers were released on the retail market in 1990, for $9,999. NeXT's original investor Ross Perot resigned from the board of directors in June 1991 to dedicate more time to Perot Systems, a Plano, Texas-based systems integrator. This original NeXT Computer was used by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, and became the world's first web server and ran the world's first web browser in 1990.