1995: "
1995 (and the early 90’s) must have been a visionaries time of
dreaming… most of their dreams are happening today.
Watch Steve Jobs (then of NeXT)
discuss what he thinks will be popular in 1996 and beyond at
OpenStep Days 1995:
Heres a spoiler:
- There is static web document
publishing
- There is dynamic web document publishing
- People will want to buy things off the web: e-commerce
The thing that OpenStep propose is:
What Steve was suggesting was one of the beginnings of the
Data Web! Yep, Portable Distributed Objects and Enterprise Objects Framework was one of the
influences of the Semantic Web / Linked Data Web…. not surprising as Tim Berners-Lee designed the initial web
stack on a NeXT computer!
I’m going to spend a little time this evening figuring out how
much ‘distributed objects’ stuff has been taken from the OpenStep
stuff into the Objective-C + Cocoa environment. (<- I guess I
must be quite geeky ;-))
"
(Via Daniel Lewis.)