HackerTube.dev

NeXTSTEP Release 3 Demo

blatherskyte · 624.6K views · 2006-02-04 · 35:09

Open on YouTube ↗

If playback is restricted in your region, try opening the original video. Use Mark watched to add it to your marked videos.

Overview

Steve Jobs demos NeXTSTEP Release 3, showing the object-oriented development environment and UI that later became the basis of Mac OS X. Midway through he builds a database-backed GUI app with Interface Builder and Enterprise Objects Framework with almost no code.

On Hacker News

HN uses it as the classic example of rapid visual app building and of a polished early Jobs presentation, often with timestamps pointing to the database demo.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2007–2016

Topics

GUI, HCI & interface historyTech pioneers & interviewsOperating systems & kernels
Search by tags
nextstepsteve jobsinterface builderenterprise objects frameworkrapid app developmentos x history

What people said

ben1040 · 2012-12 · Recommendation

Relevant - this 20 year old video with Steve Jobs giving a demo of NeXTSTEP 3. I first saw this after having bought a Mac running OS X 10.2 and was surprised by how the user-facing stuff was still very similar to its roots (maybe not nearly as much now). [VIDEO]

Read the original HN comment ↗
_frog · 2011-03 · Recommendation

Not as relevant but I saw this video a while back: [VIDEO] It's interesting to see a young Steve Jobs perfecting his presentation style.

Read the original HN comment ↗
henning · 2007-04 · Recommendation

I thought Steve Jobs's NeXT demo from 1992-1993 was pretty impressive. [VIDEO] It certainly would have seemed space-age in 1992.

Read the original HN comment ↗

Sources

Video by blatherskyte, played through YouTube.

Data and selection notes

HN summaries and labels may contain AI errors. HN dates refer to discussions, not video publication.

HN Library: HackerTube export (2026-10-31) and open-index/hacker-news. Upstream summaries and classifications may contain AI errors.

Views, duration and playback status refresh separately from the published catalog. When an update fails, existing data remains visible.

Selection checks
  • SaaS & AI candidates: Topic keywords do not match
  • Editor-approved picks: Editorial review is required

Rule matches identify candidates. They do not guarantee video quality or financial results.

About the library and its sources