1999 MacWorld Expo San Francisco - Steve Jobs Keynote - Apple VHS Archive

[@robeerob]

And that’s when he realized that having water bottles handy is a good idea.

[@euckb]

cough cough cough

[@paulmuaddib451]

For real.

[@Jushwa]

He has water there idk if he was sick or something

[@RichsRandomRetroReviews]

@@Jushwa he was sick. It was so long ago but it was covered in the UK MacUser magazine at the time.

[@Jushwa]

@@RichsRandomRetroReviews oh true makes sense

[@tylertyler82]

Apple’s golden era. Great memories

[@Jushwa]

Yeah I wish we got more time with Steve it’s a damn shame.

[@moralesnery]

This was far from their gold era. They were still barely surviving and killing entire lineups of garbage products. Their golden era started one year later

[@stinghouseproductions8502]

It's crazy watching Steve Jobs talk about a mac that is easily upgradable...

[@TUUK2006]

Apple would never have gone down their current route with him in charge.

[@jericoba]

Times change.

[@jericoba]

@@TUUK2006 I think they would. Markets, tech, and times change.

[@stinghouseproductions8502]

@@jericoba for the worst sometimes, sadly.

[@RichsRandomRetroReviews]

I’ve watched this countless times over the years (in lower quality) and I have to say, this is STILL without question, THE BEST keynote speech given by Steve Jobs. The products were insane, listen to them go wild when the G3 is opened by the door. Then streaming videos on the iMac and be brings out a classroom of iMac’s - the sniggers turn into an eruption of applause. Then finally coloured iMacs. He was so proud of all of these products you could just tell. Apple keynotes these days are sterile and do not have such feeling to them. I miss the good old days and thank you for sharing the highest quality version I’ve seen of this so far.

[@MartinDevelopment]

You are absolutely right about today’s keynote’s! I love the FireWire demo how incredible Steve was! The products were so ahead of their time.

[@gblargg]

42:50 The easy-access was really nice. I used the PowerMac 8500 for years and it was quite a chore to get to the RAM etc. They really improved things years later. 1:03:10 Scene you mentioned where he brings out the 50 Macs served by the server.

[@koen.mortier_fitchen]

Just that cough freak tho

[@supersmashmaster43]

25MB Photoshop file needing a minute to load is crazy to see lol, that's light work these days. Wonder how much a 1GB file would take to load back then

[@CerroZimm]

The picture clarity of this video in particular is the best on youtube.

[@MrT8599]

The best part of the keynote is absolutely the part where all of the iMacs are running on the server and showing different videos

[@hareshkainth8259]

I’m so happy I was in that era. So many wonderful memories and computing was beautiful back then.

[@allenwaddell556]

Their Pro customers really did appreciate it as did their non-pro users. I got the graphite version that came out next and it still works!

[@ferrreira]

Yeah the Power Mac G4 Graphite is one of the most reliable Macs ever

[@timopint1125]

@@ferrreira reliability . what an odd design concept

[@TUUK2006]

I was a pure PC user and little to no Mac experience. I worked as a game dev in 2000 and we had to do a RAM upgrade and IT let us do it ourselves. I cut my hand opening my PC, since I was the only PC dev on the team and then had to do the 3 mac people. 1 G3 like this and 2 G4s and they both opened like this. Opened my eyes to how much better Mac hardware was back then.

[@TheThunderbird63]

I love that little bit of "I dreamed of St. Augustine" at the beginning. They used to start keynotes with music that seemed like it came from Steve's own playlist.

[@QuarioQuario54321]

1999: Gigabit Ethernet an option 2020: I still don’t have gigabit WiFi

[@paulmuaddib451]

So cool seeing Carmack up there, it's kinda a shame that he didn't get into how he used the NeXT computer to do DOOM and how he praised and beat them up over the years.

[@tpf4292]

every once in a while for the last ten years, I listened to what he said, lots of ideas and opinions are as visionary and inspiring as they are today

[@rare6499]

Awesome, what a time. Should have bought lots and lots of shares back then.

[@kosymo]

So, here I am in October 2022 wanting to buy one of this G3's...

[@pinkyyy987]

Same here in August 2023 😂😭

[@whophd]

Right?? I even have one next to me, and yet for a minute I felt the need to go buy one.

[@MartinDevelopment]

I really Love this video, This was such genius! I miss Steve 23 years have come and gone and I still think of how great the products were

[@Cooe.]

10:10 Lulz, he meant to say "IBM". Freudian slip. 🤣 10:20 And that higher clocked G3 from IBM that they dieshrunk using copper interconnects was actually the first major project led by now famous AMD CEO Lisa Su! (She led the team at IBM that developed copper interconnects).

[@shinyplaid]

I love the cheering for the hot pluggable 6GB Hard Drive. That was a legit big deal at the time, but high speed swappable external storage feels like it grows on trees now. Lol.

[@Chuck_vs._The_Comment_Section]

To this day, I would have liked to have had a PC tower that you could open “just like that” and access all the hardware directly and without any detours. But there's still nothing like that on the market today. The ingenuity of tower manufacturers is still limited to things like how many glass panels, how many fan openings and how much RGB they can add.

[@acintoli]

He was coughing/politely burping constantly and back then it really hit me, because it never had happened before. It was one of the early signs of something wrong with his health. In retrospect, I believe Steve Jobs was one of the most brilliant salesmen for his own company and I am glad there are recordings of his performances.

[@TUUK2006]

This had NOTHING to do with his health condition. Talk about adding 2 and 2 and coming up with 5!

[@SketchTurnerZero]

@@TUUK2006 It really does. Yours body is smarter than you. And it gives you a sign

[@pulsatingsausageboy2076]

Or he was fighting a cold.

[@lamelama22]

​@@pulsatingsausageboy2076 No, this was not a cold; this was a regular thing at every keynote, like 3 a year, from 1998 through like 2004 or whenever he finally got his cancer surgery. Definitely didn't do it before that; you can watch his NeXT keynotes from the early 90s or the 1997 keynote where he returns to Apple, and didn't do it after up through when he was frail and dying...

[@pulsatingsausageboy2076]

@@lamelama22 No, it wasn’t. I saw them all. He wasn’t coughing all the time like that. And Jobs had pancreatic cancer. Persistent coughing isn’t one of the symptoms.

[@saskiavanhoutert6081]

In 1999 I worked at Atea in the Netherlands, now a days there stands an I - Mac. Thanks to Steve and others.

[@steftrando]

I really wish when you encoded this video that you did BOB deinterlacing and 60 frames per second, and upscale to 720p, that way VHS looks as good as it possibly can on KZbin.

[@brianc5537]

The good old days!

[@oscarfeatherstone6688]

39:20 - iPod precursor hard drive. Right down to the internal FW400 port.

[@ciurdypsyco]

42:40 That is what all companies should do on presentations, shock everyone with better things than expected, a lot better

[@gmtwj-fye7898]

Shit this is what every Desktop design should be like. lol

[@kirishima638]

it was John Carmack who convinced Apple to adopt OpenGL. They were desperate to see more games on Mac and Id were pushing the envelope at the time. I remember a lot of developers being angry when Apple killed off QuickDraw 3D. It was a bad time to be a Mac developer. In many ways OpenGL was a worse technology but it was a shortcut to getting more recognition which is what the platform needed.

[@PeterBrockie]

Now they're doing it again by depreciating OpenGL for Metal. :D That being said, I'm not sure how Microsoft is with DirectX licencing and how well it would integrate with Mac OS if they did get it. I tell ya, it's a not nicer gaming on a PC now that I switched away.

[@kirishima638]

Well I wasn't going to mention metal because this is all ancient history, almost two decades. The difference is that Microsoft fully own DirectX (although they didn't originally develop it) whereas Apple never had much say over OpenGL's development. QuickDraw 3D was Apple's competing technology but it wasn't really designed for games and only Apple's own GPUs supported it.

[@PeterBrockie]

Kiyoshi Kirishima You mean the Gerbils demo doesn't count as a QuickDraw 3D game?! :) I still have my PCI QuickDraw 3D card from Apple - it made Havoc look so sweet. Haha

[@kirishima638]

Hahaha that brings back memories! Apple was pushing QD3D hard in the late 90s and even baked it into the OS. It was just gaining traction when it was killed off. I'm an C++/OpenGL developer and OpenGL is probably the worse API I've ever had to use but I've also learned to be cautious of ANY new tech Apple introduces and that goes for metal. Glad I never bought into the OpenCL type.

[@PeterBrockie]

Yep. The list of canceled stuff is practically endless. Everything from OpenDoc to Copland, System 7 Application Linking (which as far as I know was never used). Goes on and on.

[@keaton718]

Woah, a 25MB Photoshop file opened in just 45 seconds, astonishing.

[@dmer-zy3rb]

i feel like thats wasnt even very good in the year 1999.

[@TheTriskitty]

Thanks for posting the video, it is fantastic to see it in such great quality. You may have noticed this already but this video is from the January 1999 MacWorld in San Francisco (as per the title card at the beginning) and not the 1998 MacWorld in New York. Looking forward to more clips.

[@AppleVHSArchive]

Fixed, just grabbed the text from the wrong video. Thanks! (can you guess what the next one is? haha)

[@TheTriskitty]

Just watching that video now. Thanks for posting it too. A great trip down memory lane.

[@RWL2012]

In what way is the quality "great"? There looks to be two instances of lossy digital compression (on the capture side and the KZbin side) which has visible and audible artifacts, so is worse than the VHS quality?

[@TheTriskitty]

@@RWL2012I guess “great” is always relative. Before this copy of the keynote came online I only had one where I recorded the stream via 56k modem myself onto VHS. It buffered a few times in places and I would have to manually start and stop the stream to get it going again.

[@technicalmachine1671]

1:03:22 He actually did it the absolute madman

[@Jushwa]

Yeah Steve was a real showman, them coughs tho 🤣

[@whophd]

I think it rises to the top of all stunts for me. Possibly dethrones the iBook wifi moment, but both: contenders.

[@whophd]

@@Jushwa yeah I know but points for never letting the coughs get into the speeches. Must've taken all the willpower.

[@Jushwa]

​@@whophd ​ I didn't realize just how sick he was when I wrote that, not sure why i thought it was funny, I totally agree with you, it is impressive that he never let it interrupt his speech. I think the first time I missed that he had water with him on stage. I really miss his showmanship.😭 Sure the new events are very polished, edited, and NOT live and I'm sure more people watch them now more than ever, but seeing the curtain reveal the custom built rack that effortlessly slides forward even with 49 heavy iMacs cable managed and all set up to play, is genuinely impressive even today. I haven't seen any live on-stage demo that comes anywhere close to that since his passing. ☹

[@airpixelsuk]

This wasn't my first Mac but I sure loved it. I upgraded it into oblivion and was able to keep it going for years.

[@gblargg]

42:55 "There's a gigabyte of memory." Damn, that thing was loaded for its time. 23 years later and typical machines only have 15x the memory or so standard.

[@adredy]

macbook still 8 :) and 1 port :) but 1600£ + monitor 1000£ this was super expensive even now! almost 3k :/ in 2000 people work for 3£ per hour now 11 and 2.5k i masive amount

[@GarretsonIndustries]

Best Apple Keynote I've ever watched

[@carlosfranco6029]

48:18 Jonathan Ive looks like a completely different person!

[@zachariah7114]

Hair

[@Batmancontingencyplans]

Only if Steve jobs could see this now

[@nwmusic2010]

Why did Steve clear his throat so much during this era? There are several videos of this online. Anyone know?

[@OldAussieAds]

Are you sure it's Steve? I can hear it while Steve it talking so I don't think it's him.

[@nwmusic2010]

@@OldAussieAds it’s definitely him

[@davidb.9940]

Waren es schon leichte Anzeichen von Steve's verhängnisvolle Krankheit? 🤔🙄

[@CassandraCarter]

This was a period where Apple computers had distinctly superior value over Windows PCs. What a time..

[@kirishima638]

In some ways. Those performance demos were very biased though.

[@atisbasak]

@@kirishima638 Not at all, you idiot. Apple uses industry standard benchmarks.

[@EvoPortal]

LOL. That overpriced junk had half the performance of the same priced Windows computer at the time. Yes I lived it.

[@TechRyze]

Macs cost a fortune vs PCs back then.

[@whophd]

@@TechRyze "back then" if you were talking 1989 not 1999, I'd agree, though a ton of examples could still find PCs with top specs in the same league. It's just that when you get into 5 figures, you probably wouldn't want the other brands? Especially later on when it goes from being a tool into nostalgia.

[@PatrikGillgren]

That cough in the background....

[@ReasonBeing25]

It got progressively worse. I bet Steve was so pissed when he watched this

[@andrewx8888]

1:38:38 What a strange sentence to hear in 2023. Oh have things have changed without you Steve..

[@pinkyyy987]

“Our commitment to make Mac the best gaming machine in the world” oh boy, he had no idea..

[@RyDawg96]

Was this recorded off a satellite? Heard that Apple used to broadcast its keynotes that way before internet streaming became popular.

[@SweetSweetCandyBoyz]

Just take a second to take a swig of water, holy crap...

[@PySnek]

for real!

[@famousatmidnight15]

Johnny Ive looks like an adult film star from the 70s!

[@nkarfootTv]

I still think that was the best computer design even today. I was sorry i was never in the market in those days for one.

[@whophd]

I wasn't but I sure as hell spent other people's money on one as soon as it came out. I carried the damn box with my bare hands for 20 minutes (normal walk: 5 minutes) it was so damn heavy but I was determined to get this weird-ass miracle to the server room.

[@sherbournesubwaymess]

I knew a guy who used to sell computers. Whenever someone would ask him about the new iMac: He'd show them the system and ask them "Ok, say you want to share some files with your work or friends?" The customer would look at the iMac, then say "There's no floppy". The sales rep would then divert them to the better price margin PC section and sell a Windows system. Yes, it was like this back then.

[@kiran-thetributechannel]

Golden Era

[@HikikomoriDev]

1:33:16 remains of Crash Bandicoot in there lol

[@winterheat]

it is difficult to imagine it is only about 20 years ago... and a Sony Memory Stick with 100MB was like $110... and today a 256GB microsd card is like $18... between 2 years, it may be hard to see what the different is, but between 10, or 20 years, the difference is mind blowing. My god... 100GB spindle hard drive 28:22... today it is easily 1TB SSD hard drive

[@onigvd77]

but an SSD is not technically a hard drive, that’s why there are different names to distinguish them, they are not meant to be mixed, SSD is solid state drive.

[@winterheat]

@@onigvd77 don't we call the 2TB storage in a desktop or laptop hard drive too? I think in the old days, it was called hard drive to distinguish it from "soft" floppy disk. In a way, the 3.5 inch ones also are not so soft but is soft inside. Nowadays... the SSD does not have a spinning spindle but then silicon is "hard" too

[@onigvd77]

@@winterheat I feel HDD and SSD are two different devices and that's it. The names are different to distinguish between the two. The last range of floppy disk were not that floppy they simple carried on their name from the previous generation which were very floppy and flexible, although the naming convention carried on erroneously, in this day and age when you have correct names for two distinct technologies, they should be used. if you wrote it out it would be a solid state drive hard drive, that's not right is it?

[@winterheat]

@@onigvd77 I think some people just use it as a loose term, like among friends, we may still say, oh you are getting a laptop? Did you get 1TB or 2TB for the hard drive? (when we know it is SSD)

[@onigvd77]

@@winterheat that sounds weird, coz its like you are talking about the older clunky technology. you wouldn't ask for a hard drive in a shop if you meant SSD!

[@udirt]

The SGI strategy change was such a failure 😅

[@djtomoy]

This presentation must predate the invention of the black turtleneck and the new balance running shoe

[@chrispowder2713]

Wonderful Video, great memories, but his non-stop throat-clearing makes me nervous!

[@OldAussieAds]

Who is it that's constantly clearing his throat? It's horrible.

[@keaton718]

Fuck, I didn't even notice until you mentioned it. Now I can't hear anything but his constant throat clearing.

[@chrispowder2713]

@@keaton718 sorry 🙈

[@pinkyyy987]

@@OldAussieAds Steve was the one coughing.. he was sick at the time, I think.

[@julskechap]

i love the space odyssey skit 🤣

[@goclunker]

Best design and most expandable. 2023: you get what you get

[@GraemeWoller]

It really felt like a special kind of innovation, didn't it!

[@whophd]

Do you have the raw DV for this? I think we can recover the 60fps interlaced information. (Also: Did you use S-Video or was it really VHS?) I used that exact Canopus for years but there's probably better results with 4K gear, which weirdly works better thanks to all the tricks from the last 20 years of upscaling. The Last Best Solution has also just arrived: "vhs-decode", the ultimate final digitizer.

[@alwinter]

The early Quake 3 Arena demo is wild. I've never seen that before. Also I recall Connectix Virtual Game Station running pretty poorly so that hiccup in the demo was not surprising. They also were sued out of existence if I recall correctly.

[@tommytahmoreszadeh1158]

Imagine if they came up with an NFL edition iMac, meaning you could get your iMac with your favorite NFL team logo and color on it. That would've been awesome.

[@hanniffydinn6019]

Wtf! Ps1 game emulation back then? Wow..never realised how ahead of the game apple were! 🤯🤯🤯😎😎😎👍👍👍

[@dustmighte]

This was a third party product. VGS was a pretty solid emulator with a very user-friendly interface, although it didn't enhance visuals at all

[@saskiavanhoutert6081]

52 MB where did 'we' start with KB and 1000 bit's/p/sec. The speed isn't finished yet. The law of Moore is still continous. Where can we go from here, further so to say. Thanks for this presentation, Phil Schiller and Steve Jobs., kind regards, engineer/office-manager.

[@gmtwj-fye7898]

13:05 Wow a 25MB File was hard to process at one point and time Unbelievable lol

[@charlievansant]

6:03 if you’re looking for Steve already 🙄 😂

[@andreyansimov5442]

Apple on Apple about Apple for Apple on Macworld with Mac i mean iMac of Apple. What is going on? I mean, I used my AMD based PC to learn programming, to play nice DOS and less Windows games. And it was awesome.

[@SSQMinky]

Steve Jobs advertising emulators? Now that's thinking different 🤔🤔

[@euckb]

It's weird to me that the iPhone only came out 8 years after this.

[@sternkrieger1950]

100 GIGABYTE INSIDE THE PACKAGE. 100GB!

[@koen.mortier_fitchen]

Here’s to the ones that can endure the noise of this freak’s cough

[@GiminiGregorette]

who tf desided to keep coughing into the mic? and why did no one stop them lol

[@yamil.343]

Genius intro!

[@CocoTheMii]

49:02 "If sex is power, and the computer gives you power, there's lots of sex in these machines." Taking the logical approach to "sex sells," I see.

[@adredy]

after 23 years only your wallet must expand, and pro users can open door and get out

[@anger154]

John getting a little too excited at 1:20:37

[@ferrreira]

10:12 - he meant IBM. LOL

[@NikSoparis]

I caught that, too

[@nukezat]

Imagine back then, I gave my dad the 400 bucks I had saved up to upgrade my Pentium PC to an AMD K6, and asked him to put it all in AAPL ($0.4 per share).....

[@ShimantaRoySarker]

Ah, 90's!

[@drewrogers9171]

Love the battle Apple tried with USB

[@Ligma_Shlong]

bro who the fuck is that constantly coughing every few seconds starting around 12:00 nevermind it's goddamn steve

[@ebridgewater]

I've never heard Jobs have this continuous cough. A nervous tick that the solved since this?

[@cheechyba]

How many times can you say MacWorld and Apple? - Yes

[@perfectionbox]

What is that coughing/sniffing/throat-clearing sound happening every few seconds?

[@miguelescutia5556]

I know, so annoying!

[@OldAussieAds]

Far out! I can't watch anymore. It's too much for me to handle. I wish who ever it was would drink a glass of bloody water or piss right off.

[@pinkyyy987]

That was Steve.. He was sick at the time.

[@luckystrke]

The DOOR!

[@seanys]

“Interim CEO.” Remember that bullsh!t?

[@nickfromm5315]

Funny to choose Joan Baez for opening music, her and Steve dated but we was weird asf to her.

[@anonyfamous42]

Where can I buy FireWire it looks amazing 😂😂

[@Cyril29a]

Very interesting at 10:10 Steve Jobs misspeaks and says the G3 processor from Motorola and "Intel" instead of IBM. I wonder if this is evidence of Apple secretly working with Intel chips porting Mac OS even back then.

[@olli2591]

This is very likely a Freudian slip. First rumors of an Intel transition already popped up in 2000. Today we know that there were late Rhapsody builds that could run on x86 in '97. We also know that in 2002, there was an entire team at Apple that continually worked on internal x86-compatible builds of OS X. It is highly likely that OS X was x86-compatible from the beginning and it's also likely that Jobs wanted to switch the Macs to Intel already when he came back to Apple. But because of several reasons they weren't able to pull this off directly with the release of OS X and also, PowerPC architecture looked like it was going somewhere for a couple of years.

[@cuttinchops]

42:15 wow apple lost the way here!

[@DrHouse2004]

1:02:15 Bruce Willis in 5th Element in the taxi cab And Antz movie

[@JeffTiberend]

Tim Apple would never have the balls to go in front of a real audience like Steve used to do!

[@arricammarques1955]

Think Different

[@danstar455]

10:10 mark SJ makes a flub: Intel? No IBM!

[@RWL2012]

"Archived" on KZbin with what looks like two instances of lossy digital compression (on the capture side and the KZbin side) which has visible and audible artifacts, so is worse than the VHS quality?

[@PeterBrockie]

Do you have a higher quality original for the Smithsonian?

[@communityvoicechannel7839]

Some guy is perpetually coughing.

[@pinkyyy987]

Lol that was Steve coughing 😭

[@beavermuffin]

1:32:15 and guess who managed to destroy that chart in few years: Google.

[@LajitasRain]

Firewire is going to explode!

[@speedbird737]

Take 1 letter from HAL you get IBM

[@pyjama9556]

“We want to be the best gaming platform in the world!”😆🤦‍♂️ Bless him!

[@pinkyyy987]

Oh boy, that didn’t age well at all..

[@staley1776]

Can Mac get serious about gaming again?

[@jericoba]

One purple, please.

[@justwatchingnothingmore]

Still looks better than the 2019 cheese grater

[@dennish72]

APPL Stock low 25ct at the IT crisis.

[@blu3_enjoy]

Who is coughing

[@Jushwa]

Steve, he must have been sick or something

[@medicenelpepe]

Estebe

[@arcani2095]

36:13 Դա այն բառն է, որ ես այնտեղ եմ, բարև մայրիկ:

[@bdoginit]

Your pro customers are gonna really appreciate when you stop clearing your goddamn throat every 3 seconds….