Files from the future! and more percularity
Here's another one:
It's very peculiar that we have a ten year old sticky
shipped with OS X Tiger in 2006.
1997 was a pivotal year in Apple's history, NeXT was acquired by Apple in
Feburary 1997 along with Jobs' return. At the 1997
Macworld conference, which is in August,
announcement was made of the Microsoft deal and
the new board (The
Mac Observer: July, 1997 Archive). However,
the first version of OS X is released two years
later, Server 1.0, which is the old
Platinum interface on top of the OPENSTEP
operating system from NeXT; and the consumer
version, 10.0, another two years later in 2001
after a public beta. The developers probably wrote
the sticky just days before the Macworld, and in
the early stage of building os x on top of
OPENSTEP.
Interestingly, the classic Mac OS 8 was released just three
days before the sticky, on July 26th 1997.