The Bay Area NeXT Group, an important user group formed 15 years ago around Steve Jobs' second great computer design, slipped into history in 2005, even as the technology that sparked it reached millions of users under a new name: OS X...
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NeXT has a special place in my geeky heart, it represents the start of my descent into true hardcore computer geek. I never owned one, and neither did my friends dad, he had two. Two NeXT cubes on loan from UCLA at the house. I have very fond memories spending hours in front of those screens Surfing the net with Thomas, back when: a) it was very cool to be a "net surfer" and b) before the world wide web was around. The Internet was a vastly different place then, and it will never be the same. Thankfully NeXT partially lives on in Apple’s OSX. Oh and by the way if you look at the little http:// on the address bar? It stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol and it was invented on a NeXT cube.
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