WEBMANIA keynote: ‘The Web — Act II’

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1. 1994

   NeXTSTEP Expo 1994 keynote

   The keynote from the last NeXT expo, held as NeXT pushed NeXTSTEP 3.3, OpenStep and enterprise ‘mission-critical’ applications. Roughly 78 minutes survive.

2. 1994

   Santa Clara Valley Historical Association interview (‘Secrets of Life’)

   A roughly 20-minute interview recorded by the (then) Santa Clara Valley Historical Association for a Silicon Valley centennial project, unseen until 2013 and since released in pieces: ‘Secrets of Life’ (‘everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you... once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again’), ‘On Failure’, and the ‘legacy’ clip (‘by the time I’m 50, everything I’ve done up until now will be obsolete’).

3. 1995

   Computerworld Smithsonian Awards oral history interview

   A 75-minute oral history spanning Jobs’ life to 1995: his father’s workbench, Mrs. Hill in fourth grade, ‘The Kids Can’t Wait’, the Xerox PARC visit, why he blames Sculley for Apple’s decline, the Internet as a public trust, and the upcoming Toy Story. Released by Computerworld after his death in October 2011.

4. 1995

   Robert X. Cringely interview (‘Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview’)

   Cringely’s hour-plus sit-down with Jobs, of which only about ten minutes aired in ‘Triumph of the Nerds’ (Channel 4, April 1996; PBS, June 1996).

5. 1995

   SIGGRAPH 95 keynote: Pixar and the future of animation

   On the centenary of the motion picture, Jobs tells the computer-graphics community that Pixar has pioneered ‘the next major offshoot of the motion picture... a medium in its own right’, previews Toy Story and shares its technical facts.

6. 1995

   Object World 1995 keynote: ‘The Future of Objects’

   Jobs lays out the future of OpenStep as a cross-platform object layer and introduces WebObjects, NeXT’s framework for building dynamic, database-backed web sites — the product that would carry NeXT through 1996 and, after the Apple acquisition, power Apple’s online store and iTunes Store.

7. 1996

   WEBMANIA keynote: ‘The Web — Act II’

   Jobs introduces the WebObjects product family for building dynamic web sites, arguing the web is entering its ‘second act’ of transactional, database-driven applications. Notable for Jobs demonstrating on a PC and wearing a denim jacket on stage.

8. 1996

   NPR Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross

   Jobs tells Terry Gross that Apple’s major contribution was ‘bringing a liberal arts point of view to the use of computers’, recalls winning the GUI fight because ‘I was the largest stockholder and the chairman’, and discusses WebObjects and Toy Story.

9. 1996

   Microsoft Professional Developers Conference keynote appearance

   In a rare appearance on a Microsoft stage, Jobs demonstrates WebObjects running against Windows NT as NeXT courts the Windows developer base. The 33-minute segment was preserved by Microsoft and later posted online.

10. 1996

    Internet World Spring 1996 keynote

    Jobs shows how WebObjects builds pages on the fly from live data using the Dodge, Reebok and Sharper Image web sites, and announces that a future version will support Sun’s Java. InfoWorld reported 20,000 free downloads of the March 1996 1.0 release.

11. 1996

    Swiss TV (La Télé) interview on Pixar

    A short interview for a Swiss TV newscast around the European release of Toy Story in which Jobs talks about Pixar. A second 1996 TV feature on Jobs’ Apple/NeXT/Pixar ventures (Pixar interview from 04:15) is hosted on allaboutstevejobs.com via Google Drive.

12. 1996

    TV feature on Apple, NeXT and Pixar with interview

    A 1996 television feature recapping Jobs’s Apple, NeXT and Pixar careers, followed by an interview mostly about Pixar in the wake of Toy Story.

13. 1996

    WebObjects demo at The Sharper Image store opening

    At the opening of Sharper Image’s Sutter Street store, Jobs demonstrates NeXT’s WebObjects powering the retailer’s online catalog – a dynamic site at a time when most web pages were static and hand-built.