Twenty Five Years Ago Today, Apple - NeXT Merger

December 20th, 1996  -  December 20th, 2021

Apple – NeXT Merger




http://web.archive.org/web/19990116225648/http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1997/q1/961220.pr.rel.next.html (http://web.archive.org/web/19990116225648/http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1997/q1/961220.pr.rel.next.html)
http://web.archive.org/web/19970616115216/http://www.next.com/Merger/MergerRelease.html (http://web.archive.org/web/19970616115216/http://www.next.com/Merger/MergerRelease.html)
http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Docs/merger_agreement.txt
https://rome.ro/news/2016/2/14/apple-next-merger-birthday
http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums
http://www.bang.org/

This has proven to be one of the best events in the history of computing.  It brought me into the Mac fold (in 2001), where I still am after 20 years.  I miss the earlier days, when the "lollipop spinner" was recognized as the spinning disk drive that it was, back when NeXT icons and design were more prevalent in Mac OS X, but the fundamentals are still there.

Twenty Six Years Ago Today.  8)