e62 – Emoji Easter Eggs

Inspired by World Emoji Day, we take a look at various bits of history that Apple has hidden in its emoji artwork.

It's the reason for the season.

• Follow Up
  • What Apple Thought the iPhone Might Look Like in 1995
    • original MacWorld article
  • Vintage Apple Macintosh Software Archive
• World Emoji Day
• Emojipedia
• iCal introduction
• early emoji (DoCoMo etc.)
• Infinite Loop 2
• Cupertino bus routes [PDF]
• Half Dome
• Why Apple Watch shows 10:09
• "Here's to the crazy ones…"
• Johnny Appleseed
• "emoji everywhere" provenance

e61 – The iPhone at 10

The iPhone was released to the world 10 years ago today. We celebrate a decade of the device that changed the world.

Interviews and articles

• Computer History Museum panel and interview with Scott Forstall
  • Ganatra and Melton on Debug [I II III IV V]
• original iPhone reviewers panel
• Forstall, Fadell, Christer interview
• controversial new book

The iPhone launch and legacy

• big lines at Apple stores
  • Jobs and Forstall at the Palo Alto store
  • a smaller launch event for Jaguar
  • iFixit goes to Australia for the 5s
• Jobs price drop apology letter [WayBack]
• tech the iPhone built on
  • Newton
  • iPod
    • P1 prototype
    • dock connector
• tech the iPhone obsoleted
  • BlackBerry
  • Palm
    • Treo
    • WebOS
      • not dead, it's on a fridge!
  • iPod
• tech the iPhone led the way for
  • multi-touch
    • gestures on the Mac
    • MacBook Pro (Late 2008)
    • Magic Trackpad
  • Launchpad 🚀🙄
  • ¿copycat? Android phones
• the iPhone's worldwide impact
  • autocorrect fails
  • Apps
    • "App" voted American Dialect Society Word of the Year for 2010
      • Ed was there!
    • Apple sold apps for click-wheel iPods!
      • they weren't always good.
    • "There's an app for that"
    • $70B to developers
  • Siri
    • other voice assistants
    • Her
  • flat design

e60 – Everything Old is New Again

The announcements made at WWDC 2017 reminded us of a lot of classic Mac technologies, in name, design, and function.

Follow Up

• Ed on Mac Power Users #380
• new additions to Internet Archive Mac emulation
• Apple museum visits
  • Jake Bordens at Apple Museum Prague
  • Stephen and Ticci at the Computer History Museum
  • functioning Apple I sold at auction
• Pomona prototype recreated by Jeff Rule

WWDC 2017 announcements

• macOS High Sierra
  • High Sierra Format
  • ISO 9660
  • optical media extensions in Mac OS 9
• Drag and Drop
  • in iOS 11
  • origin on the Mac
  • Gravité
  • Drag and Drop extension
• The Dock
  • NeXTSTEP dock and shelf
• Handwriting recognition
  • Newton
  • Ink
  • with Apple Pencil
• Control center

Control Center be like pic.twitter.com/MXWbRSzBeT

— Collin Allen (@command_tab) June 5, 2017

• Mac input devices
  • Magic Keypoard with Numeric Keypad
  • Apple Extended Keyboard
  • iMac Pro space grey peripherals
  • Apple Pro Mouse
  • Apple Pro Keyboard

e59 – Apple Museums

Inspired by the grand reveal of the new MacPaw museum and some new early Apple exhibits in Seattle, we take a tour of the world's greatest Apple collections on display.

Follow Up

• Love Notes to Newton film
  • map of potential interviewees
• failed Crystal Quest Kickstarter
  • Crystal Quest Classic available anyway
• Retronauts 98: Mac Gaming in the '80s
• Play Different YouTube channel

Inside the new museum at MacPaw HQ.

Apple Museums

• Apple Museum (Prague)
  • Steven's Food
  • image gallery
• Apple Museum (Moscow)
  • Bell & Howell Apple II
  • image gallery
• MacMuzeum (Warsaw)
  • collection (sadly) for sale
• All About Apple (Savona, Italy)
  • care package from Apple HQ
  • Savona's other claim to fame
• MacPaw HQ (Kiev)
  • public announcement and video
  • Tekserve
    • shop closed in 2016
    • collection planned to be auctioned
• Living Computers Museum (Seattle)
  • Wozniak and Allen meet for the first time
  • Steve Jobs' Apple I
  • Apple I at the Ford Museum (Detroit)
• Computer Museum of America (Roswell, Georgia)
  • purchased Alex Jason's "Apple Orchard"
  • An Exploration of Apple exhibit
• the garage where it all started
  • …or maybe not.
• Computer History Museum (San Jose)
  • Preliminary Confidential Offering [PDF]
  • Macintosh Business Plan [PDF]
• The Computer Museum (Boston)

e58 – Classic Mac Games

The Internet Archive recently made a library of classic Mac software available via in-browser emulation. So we played a bunch of Mac games from the late '80s and early '90s — some that we remembered fondly, some that we'd never played, and some that destroyed us.

Followup

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• The TAM's bronze color
• SlickWraps retro iPhone skin
• Save/Cancel notepads arrived
• RIP EveryAppleVideo

Games on the Internet Archive

• Roguelike Celebration
  • possibly returning in 2017
• Crystal Quest [in browser] [download]
• Phraze Craze Plus [in browser] [download]
  • Wheel of Fortune
• Shufflepuck [in browser] [download]
  • Shufflepuck Café [download]

Han served first.

• Mac Missiles [in browser] [download]
  • Missile Command
  • Avie Tevanian
• Brickles [in browser] [download]
  • Breakout
  • Shatterball
  • Diamonds 3D
• Dark Castle [in browser] [download]
  • the near end of Glenn Fleishman's college career
• The Ambrosia Times

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Games on Macintosh Garden

• Cosmic Osmo
  • Cyan
  • Obduction
  • Cyan Collection Steam bundle
• Glider [download]
  • history and gameplay video
  • Glypha
  • Slug-Man TVG
• WorldBuilder
  • catalog of games
  • Enchanted Scepters
  • Lucy's Worlds