Macworld San Francisco 2000-The Mac OS X Introduction (Pt.3)

By request, here is when Steve Jobs introduced Mac OS X for the first time ever. I edited the video myself to show the very best moments of the presentation & split it up into 3 parts on account of youtube's bogus time limit.

[@xPlatiinHD]

This video is so old it had to be split into 3 parts because you weren’t allowed to upload videos longer than 10min back than ... Good old days 👀

[@Mrmayhembsc]

also 240p haha

[@blueguest222]

now everybody does it because ads

[@GabkanoLP]

It's really interesting but also funny, looking at the 15 years old concept using OS 10.10 and see all these great features just with a more modern look and without all these visible pixels and notice how great the concept was/is.

[@maxfieldstarling7496]

Now this is a quarter century old and still in use.

[@RayZR]

I absolutely LOVE the audience's reaction all of the new stuff, especially the magnifying of the dock.

[@supervan5597]

exactly, it's 2020, and windows 10 is still so hard to use with a taskbar full with icons. I click on wrong icons on windows 10 taskbar all the time because they are so small!

[@leonardokula5742]

Drinking game: every time Jobs says "pretty cool huh?"

[@OblivifrekTV]

@hjhiihjjhgguh huh ;)

[@p0isonModTeamUK]

And that, my friends, is how you show off an unfinished product.

[@silviosarunic6709]

ms windows....are unfishied product

[@youdontseeanoldmanhavinatw4904]

@@silviosarunic6709 no, not really. Apple used to be great. Now it's okay. Steve Jobs dying is when it started to go downhill.

[@hahaitsme]

@@silviosarunic6709 How?

[@heavy0119]

@@silviosarunic6709 please elaborate

[@youdontseeanoldmanhavinatw4904]

@John Bates It no longer absolutely dominates the fields it makes products for. It's just another tech company now.

[@AlexSchwartzATV]

Their reaction to the magnification at 4:40 wish was priceless

[@Andy-Mesa]

The OS X Dock back then was really just a NeXTSTEP Dock on steroids. In fact, you can tell how much of NeXTSTEP was still a part of the early OS X builds in this demo. Aside from Aqua, and putting stuff on the desktop (which you couldn't do in the beta) this is pretty much NeXTSTEP all around. The BSD kernel, Display PDF, the Dock, etc.

[@aylalampang6732]

Apple just brought back this feature. 😃

[@dominicpascal5512]

This is a guy who is super proud of what they have done, a CEO that is caring about the product. And he has every reason to be.

[@Yarach]

Unix truly is a great system.

[@Sosroseno]

Oh hell yeah

[@HeikkiKetoharju]

@Bas BakkerApple has got a UNIX certification for its system later. But really, nowadays it doesn't matter: Unix was a standard at times when that standard was needed. Nowadays no one will ask whether or not your system is Unix because all the important software needs more than just the old Unix underpinnings. This is true also in Linux world. Not even LAMP stack ran on top of Unix twenty years ago, Node, Python or such stacks even less so. They just need some unix-like system and after that they work fine.

[@heavy0119]

@Bas Bakker BSD is unix (or unix-like) iirc

[@dtownkid]

13 years later and the dock hast really changed... it's amazing. Mac OS X is the best!

[@daviddifranco]

Awesome videos. Thanks a lot! I watched all three of them. I never realized the Dock looked like that. I've been a Mac user since 10.3 so I had no idea. It's obviously seen many improvements since then. Keep the Apple videos coming!

[@MariHalo]

David Di Franco 13 years ago omg

[@panscout1976]

14 YEARS

[@hamzasafdari9360]

It didn’t. That was just the beta.

[@hamzasafdari9360]

@@panscout1976 15

[@antonholm114]

Great that the slow-mo effect is still there, 15 years later

[@sergejkrynycky728]

+Anton Holm Yeah. Never gets old. :D

[@aldebaran_]

Totally! Always check it out if it's still there in every release.

[@lumingyin]

It's removed in macOS High Sierra (10.13).

[@IgnoreSolutions]

you can bring it back in high sierra. defaults write com.apple.dock slow-motion-allowed -bool YES && killall Dock

[@lumingyin]

Nice!

[@Millahtime]

Seeing OSX for the first time and using it on my Ruby iMac was one of those memorable moments in the tech industry. Software has never blown me away quite the same like OSX did when I first touched it in 2001. The only thing that's ever come close was using the iPhone for the first time in 2007, but that still didn't blow me away as much as OSX first did. Truly ahead of it's time.

[@chickenwing986]

"and you notice my dock just grows"

[@cheesebusiness]

My d#ck just grows

[@avakining]

Leonaяdo DiCapяio yes that was the joke

[@gmikay]

9 years ago lol

[@asystole_]

I can play with it all day long actually

[@Jay-uu5lu]

This must be preview 3 as the dock look primitive

[@sammyboi93123abc]

wow. i love how people get so excited when a window minimized. This was a big change in technology.

[@rogerwilco2]

Still going strong almost 20 years later. Microsoft has in the mean time re-invented their UI ten times or so, with a very inconsistent Windows 10 as a result, while OSX has just been maturing and is still leaps ahead of any other OS out there.

[@Loutripe]

Do you know where does Mac os comes from right?

[@jasonk9779]

@@Loutripe Yes. It's a natural evolution of NextStep.

[@AtomicBoo]

Finally after 20 years, apple is ready to move on to mac os 11, lets hope its as good as mac os x

[@RoastBeefSandwich]

@@AtomicBoo macOS 11 is just a marketing thing, it's not really any different than macOS 10's last version. It's nowhere near the difference between OS 9 and OS X for sure.

[@Andrew982_]

@@RoastBeefSandwich If I remember correctly, it can even report itself as 10.16 to older programs, right?

[@ArthArmani]

This was before windows xp and that shows you how much apple was ahead. Dock was best idea for mac OSX:)

[@olli2591]

It wasn't an idea for OS X though. The basic concept had already been part of NeXTStep a decade before.

[@mytube2013]

It was in windows 95 for a long time

[@tomtalk24]

Ummm, no! Microsoft were working on project Neptune and Odyssey at the time Apple were working on OSX. Nether were ahead or behind. Outside of mac, no one uses the dock. Pretty much everything uses an MS taskbar of some kind. Ugly, but actually works.

[@leonardokula5742]

2018 and it's still the most beautiful interface ever if you ask me in any OS

[@extalia]

2022 checking in. Ventura's public beta has just released and Apple is still yet to beat the classic Aqua design.

[@jhochadel1]

>"it's just magical" Ah, some things never change :)

[@Depravityy]

So great to watch the birth of OS X when I'm running macOS Sierra rn in 2016

[@DimitriEyonovich]

Sierra is shit compared to this (At least the graphics are)

[@XMattingly]

The difference between the Dock demo and final shipping version is VERY cool. No separation between docs & apps, no "cookie sheet" backdrop! The most interesting thing to me is that they hadn't quite worked out the way the Desktop worked, as files Steve moved to the Dock were physically placed instead of aliased there.

[@stevebowzer]

LMAO THAT DOCK THO

[@ChristopherGray00]

Pretty cool huh

[@meisterxehanort1941]

Yeah what the fuck happened there lmfao

[@spht9ng]

@@meisterxehanort1941 At least it looked normal by the time it reached public beta

[@meisterxehanort1941]

Danny s Can’t say that about macOS 11, that’s kind of a design clusterfuck rn

[@spht9ng]

@@meisterxehanort1941 yeah im not a huge fan of the iOS design merging into the desktop. Kinda wish macOS would keep it's unique design.

[@JimmyFever105]

These types of people are a head of our time, they create the world beyond our imagination. People like this create the worlds civilzation into differnet shapes and forms and before you know it, we are doing things that are considered unimaginable a few decades ago. People will look back on him and see Steave Jobbs as a god of computer technology.

[@bilalf]

This is now called Stage Manager. This idea has come back to life after 15 years

[@daviddifranco]

Oh okay, that's cool.

[@MariHalo]

David Di Franco 13 years ago omg

[@falcy2889]

@@MariHalo 14 now..... amazing to think about it

[@saipavanvelidandla]

It's 18 years yet, still it's tough to build those effects like genie effect for example. N I admire Steve coz he thinks about every detail & every problem, solves it, n give us. Our generation is truly lucky to have this visionary.

[@tomtalk24]

Compiz has managed the genie effect since 2006. Its really nothing special.

[@salatwurzel6026]

bro. You are talking about this guy like he is jesus LOL

[@jellepetje]

@@salatwurzel6026 well at least steve was real 😂

[@thisisaloadofbarnacles921]

@@jellepetje Jesus is real whether you think he's the son of God or not. He 100% existed and almost no one disputes that.

[@DaveFlash]

such a shame they removed live video from minimized applications in the dock...

[@AlexSchwartzATV]

This is a 5 year old comment but I actually was watching and tested this myself and was sad and then I scrolled down and saw this.

[@hoangbv]

@ty2 i so do agree with you, that Jobs is truly a genius, and I'm not an Apple fanboy. Apple haters now need to aware that Jobs' ideas have always been changing the world.

[@silencethesilenced]

i've just switched to Mac early last year, and now i find it a complete chore to use Windows. Mac is just better.

[@cam0227]

Hey, 12 year old commenter! *wait til you find out about linux*

[@cam0227]

@@rumble1925 yes

[@tipoomaster]

3:20 "And we're going to make it so you can even watch them in the dock" - we can't even do that now, can we?

[@evergreen-]

Maybe it took them more time than they’d expected ^_^

[@Halarue]

Wonder why they took it out at around 10.4 or 10.5

[@sejoki1]

I don't know why this was suggested to me after being on youtube for 15 years, but QuickTime STILL isn't able to play the video in the dock 3:12

[@mubd1234]

Magnification-"OOOOOOHHHHHHHH"

[@thomthum2000]

it's the magnification and hiding feature that turned the dock from 'just ok' to 'incredibly awesome'.

[@shawnanthony1992]

I always start playing with minimise in slow-mo after seeing this video :)

[@SamuelLavoie]

"its just magical" LAWZ

[@kingdave31]

20 years later they basically brought Single Window Mode back with Stage Manager.

[@Jman888]

that just shows how next gen Next Was

[@leeizme]

1:24 omg imagine if the dock looked like that today i literally wouldnt use mac

[@serdarservet]

it was a little bit edited version of NeXTSTEP's docky thing. It was simplified with Mac OS X.

[@lynx2cross]

I'm a mac user and it's the best thing I ever did to switch last year, but I have to say that this video shows that really OS X really hasn't changed all that much, I mean they add new features and change the look a little but it's all pretty much the same now as it was back then

[@teckyify]

Back then when people got excited by minimizing windows 👀

[@mjp29]

I was an Apple fanboy for many years, I even had OS X when it first came out. The best thing about OS X is was that it was Unix based - which is rock solid. My Uncle eventually introduced me to Ubuntu Linux, which is also rock solid, and I've been using it ever since.

[@akeem2983]

I personally were always a windows user, but recently switched to Fedora Linux and MacOS. Both impressed me with how different yet still extremely cool they are compared to Windows and each other

[@ephemerol]

aaaahh this renews my faith in apple!!!

[@blakem2902]

This is making me want to grab a Mac and start using the dock

[@MrSuprashadow]

After 21 years... Microsoft finally uses the same dock with Windows 11.

[@Benlop]

Thank god that silly "one window mode" didn't make it to the final version. It's amusing to see how the dock has been enhanced through time.

[@blablue123]

gosh this almost looks better than vista... And it's in 2000....

[@WalterDeleonDC]

"its just magical"

[@brandune96]

Dang! The dock is humongous! And Internet Explorer logo is so old!

[@killbot_factory]

and my dock grows as you put things into it

[@HappyFoxIsHappy]

@Lockhart2000 Transparency makes a big difference. This must of been an internal beta or demo version, the public beta featured a transparent dock.

[@AllanBaguinon]

Mac OSX 10 was good. You heard that? Linux-Like! Suckas. And no one believed me. By the way, the OS was good. But the hard ware back in the day wasn't. I used a Mac pre-loaded with this, and it was slow, Lol.

[@derekkelly485]

Who’s watching this after WWDC 2022?

[@ihalloway]

I am not an apple fan boy ... but damn ... what a breakthrough in Graphic Interface ...

[@calle68]

It took 20 years to Windows to come close to this

[@jqyhlmnp]

4:45 audience member using an iPhone ;)

[@Sammich_BHX]

@bigmacdaddy31 They put it back because a lot of people weren't happy about it being in the center, as in classic OS it was always on the left :) No idea why it was ever in the center though, that's just weird

[@corsairstw]

It's weird to see how much things have changed and also that a lot has stayed the same from OS X.0

[@animeonperseest]

quite a casual "boom" from jobs=D

[@lionellerichee]

Apple thought of people like me when designing the dock. I keep a shitton of stuff in the dock so I find the magnify feature real useful.

[@bonchbonch]

It's interesting to remember that this was six years ago when Windows 98 and 2000 ruled the day. Microsoft must have thrown together that hideous Luna theme in the in-development Windows XP after they saw what Apple was going to release. Cheers to a great operating system!

[@wowthungsten]

I didn't get the first iteration because it didn't have support for the DVD-player, how dumb was that. Over time however, it has evolved into one of the finest environments a user could hope to work in. I have never enjoye working with a Mac as I do now, and I've had everything between 7.5.3 and 10.4.8 [except 10.0 of course ;)] OS X is truly great. Can't wait for Leopard to come out.

[@ComradeSlice]

@MilladDagdoni But the Mac OS X Dock came 10 years before the Windows 7 Dock. So logically MICROSOFT stole from APPLE. AGAIN.

[@ibpointless2]

Single user mode is still somewhat there, just click on the name of the app in the menu bar and go to "hide others". What is funny is that Microsoft knew about these features and could of added them to XP but they didn't. If XP had some of these features i would of probably never switch, but im glad i did!

[@chaosdude78]

I think they changed how many things worked in Leopard, that was one of the little nifty features that didn't transfer to 10.5.

[@slashtiger1]

They decided to remove support for it when OS X became a bit too slow. I believe it was removed as of 10.2, because it really held down system performance. If Apple wish, they could re-enable it by now, because today's processors can easily cope with it.I guess they never will, though. One would have to tweak Quicktime to get it now, I think...

[@thelifeaquatica]

They disabled it in later version, but I remember on my first Mac MIni G4 1.25 with 10.3 it worked. I think as video quality improved, the system couldn't keep up, and it was impractical, but it was really cool.

[@Dapperlinx]

I'm on Tiger (10.4.11), and I can watch a video playing con my dock, I must say that this only woks on QuickTime, if you use VLC or another video player it won't work. Mac OS X slow, what are you talking about?. Cheers.

[@maxwillson]

You still can't watch the movie when it's minimized!

[@leonardokula5742]

No, it was done but removed later.

[@iWigY]

For me, as a Power User, thats a VERY good thing.

[@trylikeafool]

Man, I don't remember technology being this antiquated in the year 2000. I mean, it doesn't feel like that long ago, and yet this video proves that it was. I remember the movies and stuff out at that time like yesterday, and I just remember the late 1990s and early 2000s being a lot more modern than this. I mean, good crap...I'm not even 30 yet and I feel old.

[@cheesebusiness]

That moment when IE logo appeared 😲

[@Enigmatism415]

In January 2000, we were shown what the 21st century would look like.

[@hipsterthanyou]

1:48 open something in the dock by mistake.. classic!, even jobs do it

[@donmateo51]

and this was 7 years ago. wait till you see how it is now.

[@NaNdgate]

i guess it depends on what you use your computer for. i script and surf the web, generally when people buy macs they use them for things like video processing and processor heavy applications. for the average user, a mac is a perfect choice. but it'd be more efficient to build a hackintosh or have someone build a hackintosh for you. i guess i feel i need to be in control of every aspect of my computer and regular macs don't let me achieve that

[@lumberj23]

@iTechMacbooks Actually Microsoft uses the taskbar since the first windows version. Apple only reinvented it by making it amazing and simple or stuff like this.

[@atarixle]

It's two decades old now ...

[@PhilCollins93]

What a software Revolution it was in those times!

[@MLennholm]

Wow 2000, Apple really was ahead of its time with the dock. I've always prefered the Windows task bar and start menu that Microsoft introduced in 95, especially with the later additions of the quick launch and coupled windows, but it was never really ahead of it's time like the dock was in 2000. More like right on time.

[@themacintoshnerd]

6:51 holy crap that’s literally stage manager

[@roundglasses]

😮

[@tigerwhite007]

15 years on the mac still looks similar to this, just cleaner and more modern and retina ready

[@fc436]

Mac Dock=fantastic. Windows Start= SHIT

[@ongansan]

Lol, internet explorer

[@Dan-TechAndMusic]

+Lam rof Microsoft paid Apple to have IE as the standard browser back then. That was in 1997, when Apple was in dire straits after years of mismanagement without Jobs. That year they got both Jobs back, and Microsoft gave them millions of dollars, to have IE as the standard browser in return. That saved Apple, even if it was an unpopular decision (when it was announced and Bill Gates got on the live feed during a Jobs speech, he was booed at, and IE was laughed at).

[@mattreedah]

Also, it’s weird to say but IE was the lightest, best Mac browser for at least a few years around that time.

[@gui577b]

Jeez, the dock has come so far.

[@carpii]

Youd think the Macromedia CEO coulda dressed up a bit He looks like he's spent the night sleeping rough in the streets, after a hard night on fortified wine

[@technoguy3542]

Back then it showed you the contents of the window. WHY DOESN'T IT DO THAT NOW?!

[@leftfoot]

Lmao, The dock has become more refined since then.

[@MarcJenningstv]

quickview yeah but i'm not or is steve talking about that. it displays a still image when the quicktime player is minimized, therefore we've went backwards.

[@ChristopherDrum]

"This is our foundation for the next decade of Macintosh operating systems" he said in 2000. 20 years later it's finally dropped the "X" and is the foundation for iOS and watchOS. I wonder if there was some internal project he was referring to when he said that.

[@aldebaran_]

I love how anything can be placed in the Dock even to this day… unlike the Windows Taskbar

[@daftrok]

I LOVE ROCKET DOCK! Just type it in Google and look at some of the images. Its the same dock for windows, except you can't minimize windows into it.

[@faizansiddiqui6862]

Dock magnification is the coolest thing I've ever seen for an ugly looking dock, Steve was visionary!!

[@zacharycoleman1117]

fun fact: that slow minimize mode he used in the demo still exists in macOS13 Ventura assessable via terminal command

[@TheArfdog]

Windows still don’t look this good work this well

[@zakkforchilli]

Aqua changed my life. Honestly the appeal of certain UI’s sold me on certain products for sure. Has a huge effect on people whether they know it or not.

[@Siddif]

Damn lol leopard was the 1st Mac OS i owned (we still have Tiger at college though so i might try that when i go back =D

[@rkukmedia]

wow I didn't even know you could do that, it does work on Snow Leopard tho

[@anilingus]

A feature missed by 12 people world-wide.