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- Kier, on 12/03/2007, -14/+257Of course, no mention of Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the net, but of STEVE JOBS!! Man of unparalleled science and creation. I love Apple products, but let's give credit where credits due, eh?
- pimpbot1979, on 12/03/2007, -7/+192Oddly enough it was used to power an ASCII porno BBS.
- sophiaperennis, on 12/03/2007, -10/+190The good old CERN machine. Turning that machine off equalled turning off the internets.
- MikeonTV, on 12/03/2007, -7/+156Oddly enough it is powered down.
- kalleanka, on 12/03/2007, -5/+139You are just like my mom... When she sees me turn of my monitor she thinks I have turned of the computer...
- doctordbx, on 12/03/2007, -20/+144Dugg down for the Steve Jobs ***** loving reference. (really, this should be an option on the bury drop down)
So many things have been invented on the humble PC the mind boggles. - statikuz, on 12/03/2007, -16/+139From Wikipedia: "The NeXT Computer and NeXTcube were high-end workstation computers developed, manufactured and sold by NeXT from 1988 until 1993. They ran the NeXTSTEP operating system. The NeXT Computer (often informally referred to as "the Cube") was released as a 1-foot (305 mm) die-cast magnesium cube. It cost US$6500."
I would digg it, but the submitter had to tag on a little bit of Steve Jobs fanboyism so down it goes! ;) - zachshmack, on 12/03/2007, -5/+88Ahhh, THAT'S what powers Wordpress
- Archon810, on 12/03/2007, -11/+72ok, whatever, digg me down. i will just turn of my monitor and go ofline.
- Misinformant, on 12/03/2007, -1/+58I think Comcast still uses it.
- inactive, on 12/03/2007, -6/+63Here's the back story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:First_Web_Serve ...
- aznhomig, on 12/03/2007, -15/+67Funny enough, there's no mention of Steve Jobs in the background for this machine.
Buried for blatant falsification of where credit is due. - subxero37, on 12/03/2007, -1/+41I've always wanted to tinker with a NeXT machine; in their day, they were some incredible machines.
- oneoverzero, on 12/03/2007, -3/+43or maybe we do get it and it's not very funny
- edebolt, on 12/03/2007, -2/+42I had one of those.. That is a PPC powered NeXT Station Turbo circa 1992. At the time I had a whopping 32 mb of RAM and thought I was a bad ass.
- tehrob, on 12/03/2007, -1/+37... and that is odd why?
- Kier, on 12/03/2007, -1/+30Touche, he invented the World Wide Web. Small error on my part.
- has2k1, on 12/03/2007, -2/+31If you look carefully between the monitor and the base station, you can catch a glimpse of the tubes.
- punx777, on 12/03/2007, -6/+34" This machine is a SERVER, do not power off"
--classic. - stockjones, on 12/03/2007, -11/+34This is about Tim Berners-Lee NOT Steve Jobs you dolts. Steve Jobs had nothing to do with the first web server.
- OrangeTide, on 12/03/2007, -1/+24That hardware can run Apache 2.x without much trouble. Might want a bit more RAM if you plan on running PHP or Ruby On Rails though. We haven't gone far at all. We're still at the beginning of the information revolution.
- HoagieKat, on 12/03/2007, -2/+24Some people ought to learn the history on the WWW, Tim Berners-Lee invented the worlds first web server application, not Steve Jobs (even though he had a hand in the NeXT Cube)... It's like crediting Bill Gates with inventing winamp. So I've hit the Bury button.
- dlsspy, on 12/03/2007, -7/+28They still are. The newer ones are called ``macs.''
I've got a couple older NeXT boxes from that era around the house, but the APIs in the newer ones are more fun for me. - inactive, on 12/03/2007, -5/+25Al Gore championed the bill that allowed funding for this "World Wide Web" to take off. It's the republicans that took what he said completely out of context and ran with it.
One a side note, I don't know if you were joking, but Al Gore fortunately is not dead. But tasteful jokes on Digg however... seems to be. - spudnic, on 12/03/2007, -0/+20Just a tip in case you're new around here and wondering why you're being dugg down: signatures aren't the done thing. If there's something on your site worth seeing, submit it like everyone else.
- aaarrrggghhh, on 12/03/2007, -3/+23Personally I was far more impressed when Steve 'big steaming' Jobs invented the Saturn 5 Rocket and flew to the moon, of course after developing the atomic bomb (which obviously was used against his will while he was running a peace mission in Tibet (anyone else notice Steve looks just like the Dalai Llama?)). His work in the discovery of penicillin is sadly overlooked but luckily he still got the nobel prize for chemistry in 1920. On the 7th day he invented the mac (or was that really woz?). Bloody fanboyz
- SteveMax, on 12/03/2007, -5/+25Therefore, it's Job's accomplishment, not Tim Berners-Lee's (at least here in Digg)
- phlll, on 12/03/2007, -1/+20Charles Babbage should get props here too... after all, he designed the Differential Engine, which is the foundation of computing! So he invented virtual reality!
- tyderian, on 12/03/2007, -0/+18You would have wanked to it like everyone else at the time ;)
- tynantyguy, on 12/03/2007, -4/+22Steve Jobs developed NeXT computers.
- themastersb, on 12/03/2007, -3/+21Then as one of the cleaning crew comes in: "Hey. Someone left this computer on. I should turn it off to save power. The boss will be so happy with how I'm such an environmentalist."
- spudnic, on 12/03/2007, -1/+19Funny thing is, this image is from Tim Berners-Lee's wiki page
"This NeXTcube was used by Berners-Lee at CERN and became the first Web server."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee - dinostabOMG, on 12/03/2007, -1/+19He said INTERNETS, not Internet.
- ZachSka87, on 12/03/2007, -0/+17http://www.asciipr0n.com/pr0n/pinups.html
- inactive, on 12/03/2007, -0/+17Is it still around? I want to see it to,uh, research old methods of porn.
- Archon810, on 12/03/2007, -19/+35off
- toastgodsupreme, on 12/03/2007, -8/+23Want to play a MUDD with me?
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if you don't get this, you're too young. ;) - rspeed, on 12/03/2007, -22/+37Hi. World Wide Web != Internet.
- mediaploy, on 12/03/2007, -1/+16i wonder how it will handle the digg effect.
- doctordbx, on 12/03/2007, -0/+14Obviously not Apple Fanboism.
- ptsd, on 12/03/2007, -6/+20who the ***** would down vote you? you know what, ***** digg, im tired of all the morons here.
NeXT computers were awesome...aside the stupid looking mouse. - saggygrandma, on 12/03/2007, -3/+17He created Next, thats why his name is mentioned.
- arusso, on 12/03/2007, -1/+15If I'm not mistaken, the picture was taken when it was already in the museum...
- ZachSka87, on 12/03/2007, -0/+13sorry to double post, just saw your comment, lol
http://www.asciipr0n.com/pr0n/pinups.html - bradleyland, on 12/03/2007, -0/+13Thank you for saying that. This photo has been up on the Wikipedia entry for WWW since June of 2006 and is PROPERLY credited as the computer belonging to Tim Berners-Lee. Only a complete douchebag would caption the photo with "Another Steve Jobs First" without any additional explanation.
- edebolt, on 12/03/2007, -1/+13This brings back memories. I was working at the University of Colorado Boulder and somebody told me this WWW.app was a game changer so I downloaded it to try it on my NeXT Station. It was so crude and lacking any function I could not get too interested... Then I heard about this Marc Andriessen guy and early Mosaic beta's and immediately understood the application and then I was hooked.... If it was up to T-B-L then I doubt it would have taken off as it did.... The OBJ C environment of the NeXT OS let a non programmer like T-B-L create a new paradigm and Jobs et all really do deserve credit for enabling all of this.
- nulix, on 12/03/2007, -2/+14Sorry, but crediting Jobs here is like crediting linus torvalds for the Apache web server. Yes, he might have had some hand in the software it runs on, but the people who actually wrote the thing deserve a lot more credit!
- Acolyte357, on 12/03/2007, -2/+14No, if you read your own ***** link, hes says "This had the advantage that there were some great tools available -it was a great computing environment in general. In fact, I could do in a couple of months what would take more like a year on other platforms,"
But I think it's pretty cool how you STEAL credit for Berners-Lee's thought process and give it to Jobs. "what enabled Tim Berners-Lee to imagine"
"A team led by Avie Tevanian, one of the Mach engineers at Carnegie Mellon University who had since joined the company, were to develop the operating system, whilst the hardware division led by Rich Page, one of the cofounders who had previously led the Apple Lisa team, were to develop and design the hardware. The name of the company was changed to NeXT Computer, Inc.." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT
Wow, I don't see Jobs in that statement anywhere. Jump off his nuts, he's a great business man, but that's it. - slapded, on 12/03/2007, -1/+13i can see you dont understand bush jokes
- Tyrghast, on 12/03/2007, -0/+12"Hey Steve, what the hell is a 'server'?"
"Well, the quick definition is 'porn box'..." -
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