Update from Jonathan, 2/24/2024: part 2 has been extremely difficult to write and I’ve had many false starts as I tried to find the story thread I wanted to follow. However it is moving ahead nicely now, with the script fully outlined and currently sitting at 7600 words. I do not have any estimate as to when it will be done, but once it’s complete I will immediately post it to our Substack, instead of waiting until the video is done.

Steve Jobs was an enormously influential figure in the history of personal computing, not only as a founder of Apple computer, but also as the man who significantly changed the way we experience computing, music, communications, and media.

But in between introducing the Macintosh in 1984 and the iMac in 1998, Jobs went through an interesting but rarely covered period in life where he was essentially fired from Apple and started a new computer company called NeXT. His goal was to repeat his success with the Macintosh and bring to market an entirely new platform that would go as far beyond the Macintosh as the Macintosh had gone beyond the IBM PCs.

Credits

NeXTCube
CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=436453

NeXTStep OS
By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34598118

Macintosh 128k
By w:User:Grm wnr - Modifications of Image:Macintosh 128k.jpg and w:Image:Macintosh 128k No Text.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=519781

iMac
CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=521646

iBook
CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=496249

iPod
By The original uploader was Rjcflyer@aol.com at English Wikipedia. - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Addihockey10 using CommonsHelper., CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12976762

iPhone
By Rafael Fernandez - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63395591

iPad
By Justin14 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25720064

G4 Cube
CC BY 2.0, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9026142

Tim Berners-Lee
By Creator:Levi Clarke - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53878695

NeXT Web Server
By Coolcaesar at the English language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=395096

ID Logo
By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51434380

MS-DOS logo
By Microsoft - MS-DOS v1.25 and v2.0 Source Code. GitHub, Inc. Retrieved on 2018-11-19., MIT, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73370911

OS 211 Startup
http://toastytech.com/guis/os211startup.png

Aardwolf
By by Dkaeuferle = Dominik Käuferle - Originally from de.wikipedia;

NeXTSTEP OS Screenshots
https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/openstep42

Amiga 500
By Bill Bertram - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=350965

Amiga 1000
By Original photo by Kaiiv (de.wikipedia), Editing by Pixel8 - http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Amiga_1000_PAL.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6642500

Amiga 4000
By Kaiiv - Self-photographed, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6642613

TextEdit
By The original uploader was JollyRogerBay at English Wikipedia. - Screenshot taken by w:en:User:JollyRogerBay, BSD, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36430224

Chess
By Apple Inc., The GNOME Project - Screen-capture, ASCL, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20224305

Apple II Photos
http://www.oldcomputers.net/appleii.html

Apple III
CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=205447

IBM PC 5150
By Ruben de Rijcke - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9561543

Andrea Cunningham
By Hhwong - Taken at a book signing party at Northwestern University facilities in San FranciscoPreviously published: not previously published, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65072778

Many photos of Jobs and NeXT are taken from the great website, https://allaboutstevejobs.com/

Many photos of NeXT systems are taken from another interesting website https://oldcomputers.net/next-cube.html

NextStation “Pizza box”
By Rama & Musée Bolo - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.0 fr, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36770097

By Marcin Wichary - Flickr: NeXTstation, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18296286

Mac IIfx
https://www.oldcomputr.com/posts-about/apple/macintosh-iifx/


Deluxe Paint
By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3237399

Atair ST
CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=500910

Many NeXTSTEPOS screenshots
https://simson.net/ref/NeXT/screenshots.htm