Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 4th Jun 2004 06:22 UTC
PalmSource ain't gonna make a birthday party for BeOS but it would only be fair if the rest of us, [ex-]users, remember the "media OS" as the innovative operating system of the late '90s, still used by some. Depending on how you count, it was early 1994 when the first BeOS version left the Be, Inc. offices and headed toward Be's "partners" and "developers". It was 1994 when the word started to spread around among geeks about this "new and exciting" OS and soon, external devs got access to it.
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I joined as a developer enthusiast back in 1996. In fact I’ve kept those emails. I was so excited about being apart of something so new a fresh. It was fun to boot an OS off of a 100MB ZIP disk!
One of the first things I noticed was how creative the "about box" was for each app. And it kinda became the signature to the app and the team. It’s creative and shows a side of freedom I hadn’t seen anywhere else.
Memories <sigh>