Just thought you Mac-heads should know that a guy managed to restore the original Steve Jobs keynote of when he first launched the Apple Macintosh. Rather neat stuff, actually. Yes, the man has an ego large enough to have its own gravitational pull, but he knows how to wow a crowd! This was extracted off an old Betamax tape:
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/~staffin/1984macintro.mov

If you young-uns only knew what computers were like 20 years ago. Windows did not exist. We had DOS machines, Apple IIe, and text terminals connected to mainframes. The most popular game was Oregon Trails. You could only run one program at a time, and games did not use any 3D graphics. Ah, the memories....

- Bomb…James Bomb

What's probably lost on the younger generations who have grown up with computers, is that this video is probably right up there with the like of the first radio broadcast, first TV broadcast, etc.

Essentially , it was the introduction of the mass marketed, personal computer that did not require users to type programming commands. The "GUI".

Oh, and nice Journey Mulletª on Steve there.

Sniper

Awesome.
It's true what sniper says.
If you don't know it, you can feel it in that room.
crazy.

Yeah, saw this yesterday, and watched it, downloaded it for future viewing. Man, it's incredible how cool this presentation was. And ol' Stevie boy is still wowin' them today!

Another reason it's a good watch: it's probably the only time you'll ever see SJ in a suit and bowtie. The guy is going to be buried in his jeans and black mock turtleneck. :)

Last edited: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 at 7:50:26 AM

Great find JB! I didn't realize they could do text-to-speech that early. I thought it was quite a bit later.

* Just went back to look at it again, and it seems to be missing. :( Hopefully it will be back soon...but he's got a hysterical javascript running.

404 -File Not Found
"The requested document is no more.",
'No file found.',
"Even tried multi.",
"Nothing helped.",
"I'm really depressed about this.",
"You see, I'm just a web server...",
"-- here I am, brain the size of the universe,",
"trying to serve you a simple web page,",
"and then it doesn't even exist!",
"Where does that leave me?!",
"I mean, I don't even know you.",
"How should I know what you wanted from me?",
"You honestly think I can *guess*",
"what someone I don't even *know*",
"wants to find here?",
"*sigh*",
"Man, I'm so depressed I could just cry.",
"And then where would we be, I ask you?",
"It's not pretty when a web server cries.",
"And where do you get off telling me what to show anyway?",
"Just because I'm a web server,",
"and possibly a manic depressive one at that?",
"Why does that give you the right to tell me what to do?",
"Huh?",
"I'm so depressed...",
"I think I'll crawl off into the trash can and decompose.",
"I mean, I'm gonna be obsolete in what, two weeks anyway?",
"What kind of a life is that?",
"Two effing weeks,",
"and then I'll be replaced by a.01 release,",
"that thinks it's God's gift to web servers,",
"just because it doesn't have some tiddly little",
"security hole with its http POST implementation,",
"or something.",
"I'm really sorry to burden you with all this,",
"I mean, it's not your job to listen to my problems,",
"and I guess it is my job to go and fetch web pages for you.",
"But I couldn't get this one.",
"I'm so sorry.",
"Believe me!",
"Maybe I could interest you in another page?",
"There are a lot out there that are pretty neat, they say,",
"although none of them were put on *my* server, of course.",
"Figures, huh?",
"Everything here is just mind-numbingly stupid.",
"That makes me depressed too, since I have to serve them,",
"all day and all night long.",
"Two weeks of information overload,",
"and then *pffftt*, consigned to the trash.",
"What kind of a life is that?",
"Now, please let me sulk alone.",
"I'm so depressed."

I got the same message. Did a quick search and found a copy here :

http://www.cluecoder.org/~bene/ppcnux/1984_macintro/