Special Treat: Steve Jobs NeXT Mail Welcome Message and Picture

Published by Eric Litman on Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 7:37pm

I reached out to my friends on the ex-NeXT mailing list today to dig up an old gem: the default Steve Jobs welcome message in every NeXTstep users' mailbox. This was a favorite play during customer demos and is so emblazoned into my permanent memory that I (sadly) can still to this day recite it: Hi, this is Steve Jobs, and I want to welcome you to the NeXT world. We think you're gonna love this computer. It's got the most advanced applications of any computer shipping today, AANNNDDD, it's the first computer designed from scratch to be an interpersonal computer, to extend personal computing into the realm of improving group productivity and collaboration, which we think is going to be ...