@user-ll7cv1ii8m
This is a bit old but the spinning color wheel at 19:10 is not a beachball. It is supposed to be the rotating optical disk on the first Next Machine. (Back then, the rewritable optical media was very slow and the spinning optical disk showed to the user that the OS was still reading from disk).
@drewzero1
Fun fact about BreakOut, it was actually designed by Steve Wozniak while he was working at Atari! So I like to think its inclusion was a nod to another important Steve who was also no longer with Apple at that point.
@carlandjennifersilva
Mac OS X absolutely was Nextstep made to look like a Mac OS.
@alliejr
The dock in NeXTSTEP could be on the right, left or bottom just like in MacOS; it’s just a preference. Also, notice the Services menu survives although no one really knows how to use it despite its power. Also note the entire concept of “The Browser” which was unique to NeXTSTEP and became the basic (and innovative) navigation for the original iPod. Steve would love to demo dragging and image of Mickey Mouse into a new Mail message to show off the power of Display Postscript... one of the most powerful innovations in NeXTSTEP and a huge reason why the UI looks so buttery smooth.
@tenminutetokyo2643
Rhapsody was actually the original NeXTStep modified to look like Mac OS 9 with a special layer called Yellow Box which allowed NeXT to make calls into Mac OS 9 API for certain thing such as drawing and menus - which was how Rhapsody was able to draw a Mac OS 9-like UI on top of NeXTStep.
@tribbinvw
I was involuntarily preparing for rock-paper-scissors as a Pavlov reaction to the way you rock your hand.
@OmerFlame
Fun fact, if you look at Apple's macOS APIs for the Swift and Objective-C programming language today, you'll see that a lot of different classes and protocols start with NS (for NextSTEP)
@wilsoncolocho8591
ooohh That's why the Stickies app looks like a 90's software and feel out of place on Big Sur, good to know
@floydiandroid
I love that app bundles are still basically the same thing throughout all iterations.
@rodrigogirao8344
12:06 NeXT's logo was created by Paul Rand -- who also did IBM, Westinghouse, Cummins, and Enron.
@tenminutetokyo2643
I worked at a Mac SCSI card mfg. in 1999 and when I saw the first release of Rhapsody with no desktop disk icons I emailed Steve and told him Apple was making a big mistake not putting disks on the desktop. “Boy are you wrong.” he replied. He later changed his mind for Mac OS X 10.0.
@JapanPop
Huh! I never realized os x server was Rhapsody underneath. Now this is edutainment. Nice.
@KyleWeber
One thing that would have been cool to show in Rhapsody is how you can "rip" the menus off, which makes them feel similar to the ones in OpenStep. Basically, when you click to select a menu, just keep pulling it down and it will tear off...
@xnonsuchx
And, of course, current macOS actually still has the .app extension, but is just hidden by default.
@drywinddotnet
Great video. I still use my NeXTStation Turbo running NeXTStep 3.3 for focused writing. It's from 1992 and is so modern.
@zoomosis
The NeXTSTEP UI may be fairly familiar to Linux & BSD users of the late '90s: WindowMaker was a popular window manager at the time, which cloned a lot of the NeXTSTEP UI.
@erickleefeld4883
On my Mac, I put the dock on the right edge of the screen like it was in NextStep. The whole thing totally works, and gives you back more vertical working area.
@robertlee9559
This really brought back some memories. I have been using Macs for over 30 years. When OpenStep 4.2 came out, I told a lot of my Windows using friends to grab a copy. I said that I wouldn't be surprised if Apple bought it because of the problems they were having with Copeland. BeOS wasn't going to cut it, in my eyes. In 96, I told them that Apple would rebound if NeXT merged since it meant Jobs would be back at Apple. They laughed. My favorite thing to do nowadays is to refer to my phone as my NeXTPhone. People just look at me and shake their heads.
@jba2048
Back when they were deciding what to do with the aging OS software there was a lot of talk about BeOS; I was really hoping for BeOS.
@libsteve