From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."

Now that I’ve been retired for a couple of days, I think I can finally tell this story of how I was – very briefly – [email protected] And Steve Jobs sent me an email saying “Great idea, thank you." Wait, what? What was the great idea? new guy at NeXT In October of 1991, I was a new Systems Engineer at NeXT. NeXT, of course, was the company Steve Jobs had founded after leaving Apple in 1985, and which eventually merged back into Apple in 1996. I was one of three employees in Canada, and I think NeXT had about 400 people total. NeXTMail Mail on the NeXT Computer was pretty amazing in 1991. Multimedia! Fonts! Attachments! Sounds! It’s hard to overstate how cool that was compared to the command line plain-text email everybody was used to. Every NeXT user got this email from Steve when they started up their computer. That message included an attachment of what NeXT called Lip Service, the crazy idea that you could embed an audio file inside an email message. Crazy. Your browser does n ... Read full article.