Original text by David Pogue, Macworld July 1996.

Macworld Boston 1997: “Who is the largest education company in the world?” … [dead silence]

Macworld Boston 2004: “Where are the market share numbers coming from? .. 3% market share–the first time Phil Schiller heard [that, it] came from Dell!”

WWDC 2004: “Redmond, start your photocopiers!” banners.

Original text by Steve Hayman.

Steve Jobs demos WebObjects at Microsoft PDC 1996.

Xserve (with free WebObjects server license) introduction from WWDC 2002.

WebObjects FedEx and Chrysler demo clips from OpenStep Day 1995, parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Avie Tevanian and Jon Rubinstein on Jobs’ discomfort re: talking to enterprise customers.

WebObjects retrofit for the IBM Eclipse IDE: WOLips.

Did you know there’s a WorldWide WebObjects Developers Conference (WOWODC), and that iMessage still uses WebObjects as part of its foundation?

Original text by Charles Piller, Macworld October 1995.

A lot more about Quix Daydream, the Macintosh environment for NeXT hardware:

• YouTube: booting into Daydream
• YouTube: a more detailed look at Daydream
• a brief NeXTWORLD product review of Daydream
• NeXT FAQ section 5.21: “I want to emulate a Macintosh. How?”
• kevra.org’s Daydream box shot
• John Rubinstein: “There was a kid in Switzerland who … figured out how to build a layer on top of CHRP that would allow you to run Mac OS.”

IBM officially cancelled plans to ship Mac OS on any hardware, and in particular on IBM-branded machines weeks before this story ran.

Jon Rubinstein explains FirePower’s accidental connection with Apple’s turnaround. Also, the stagnating PowerPC G4 is superfast, no, really: The Megahertz Myth. Jon retired in 2006 along with Avie Tevanian, and Apple has never really been the same since. Palm/HP coaxed Jon out of retirement in 2007 to work on the Palm Pre/Plus, putting him in direct competition with the iPhone. “I’m definitely off [Steve’s] Christmas card list,” he said in 2010.

I don’t know about you but I find these Mac OS clone bureaucracy articles really boring and depressing. This is the last one!