Seattle Before the iPhone #1 - Luke Adamson
This episode was recorded 15 May 2013 live and in person at The Omni Group’s lovely offices overlooking Lake Union in Seattle.
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Luke Adamson is a founder of Toy Rockets. He’s a former instructor at the University of Washington’s iOS and Mac certificate program and a former developer at The Omni Group (where, among other things, he helped create OmniOutliner).
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Things we mention, in order of appearance (roughly):
- Gophers
- Idaho
- Meth
- Maze War
- Boise State U
- Nextstation
- UUCP
- HP
- Usenet
- Commodore 64
- BASIC
- Pascal
- Objective-C
- C++
- Win16
- AppKit
- Foundation
- NSString
- University of Idaho
- The Omni Group
- Texas A&M
- OmniWeb
- OmniPDF
- WebObjects
- Lighthouse Design
- Diagram!
- Quantrix
- Wainscoting
- EOF
- Standard & Poor’s
- Mitsubishi
- Toyota
- McCaw Cellular
- Oracle 8
- Craig Federighi
- Bruce Arthur
- Solaris
- Sybase
- G4
- Ireland
- Quake
- HP-UX
- Doom
- John Carmack
- Java
- BeOS
- Adobe
- PowerPC
- Power Computing
- Webscript
- Lisp
- Swing Toolkit
- AWT
- Ken Case
- Tim Wood
- Wil Shipley
- Greg Titus
- Andrew Abernathy
- Tom Bunch
- Retrospect
- Steve Nygard
- Class-dump
- OmniOutliner
- Visio
- Rhapsody
- OmniGraffle
- Illustrator
- Mazda RX-7
- FrontBase
- Denmark
- Cinema Displays
- TiBook
- Everett, Washington
- Blue hair
- Sub-prime mortgages
- Bear Stearns
- Deutsche Bank
- Credit Suisse
- Internap
- Xserve
- Ubermind
- Deloitte Digital
- Societe General
- India
- iOS
- Jailbroken iPhones
- Lucas Newman