Bill Atkinson in line to buy his iPhone
- Taken at 9:18 PM on June 28, 2007 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu
This photo was taken on June 28, 2007 using a Nokia N95.
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mobipics.com [deleted] (72 months ago | reply)
Phone time: 9:41. Picture taken 9:18. Proof that Apple is ahead of the times.
StuFF mc (72 months ago | reply)
As one of those behind the Mac, he deserves it ;) Thanks for the Mac, and now enjoy your iPhone ! PS: If you or somebody who knows you happens to see this message : I'd like to interview you for www.pomcast.com (we have about 100 000 downloads a month)
Pierre Col (72 months ago | reply)
It is a shame Bill Atkinson did not receive an iPhone as a gift from Apple !
Richard Masoner / Cyclelicious (72 months ago | reply)
That must be your son I met this morning. Seems like a nice kid.
Gerard van Schip (72 months ago | reply)
Bill Atkinson!!! Me is not worthy to look at this photo.
/me bows
Sheryl Breuker (72 months ago | reply)
The smile tells it all! Why am I not living in the US? :o)
Gerard van Schip (72 months ago | reply)
Sheryl: I can top that, why did I leave Apple?!?!?!?! (got lured away by dotcom money which turned out to be a dotcon :(
kosso (72 months ago | reply)
come this ain't on your Zooomr ? ;p
--David and Jennifer-- added this photo to their favorites. (72 months ago)
JacobMetcalf (72 months ago | reply)
That guy with his Mac Paint program changed my life. You think that Steve Jobs would hook him up with an iPhone. I mean he did help this little project called "Macintosh" back in the early 80s.
betsythedevine (72 months ago | reply)
Oh, man, the guy behind MacPaint! As Jake also said, he changed my life. I did most of the illustrations for Frank's and my first book in MacPaint--printed them out on my dot-matrix printer, shipped off this "art" to WW Norton, and it's still in print. The earliest version of my science joke book started off as a photocopied pamphlet whose "art" was MacPaint. Simon and Schuster sprang for an actual artist when they published it, tho.
And don't get me started on all the little dot-matrix black and white "stained-glass-windows" my two kids made for me, some of which I still have.
Robert, thanks so much for this memory! Hope you and Patrick have lots of fun with your iPhone.
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scallydandan (72 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called iPhone, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Squidly added this photo to his favorites. (71 months ago)
brucehoult (71 months ago | reply)
Not just MacPaint!
The awesome HyperCard was all his too. Besides being great in its own right in allowing millions of regular people to make useful simple hyperlinked applications for themselves (and it's *still* better than Microsoft's ripoff, VB), it also is what inspired Tim Berners-Lee to make the first web server and browser.
And not only that! He also wrote the QuickDraw graphics library that was so ultra-optimized in hand-written assembler that it allowed 8 MHz machines (everything from the first Mac 128 through to the Mac Plus and Mac SE and Classic) to run a responsive GUI. The Mac would have been impossible without him, at least at that time.
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DiamantThomy (14 months ago | reply)
Nice
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Andy Beez (14 months ago | reply)
Before dithering, we made images on dot matrix printers using the Ascii character set - and that's no April fool! Thank you Bill Atkinson.
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DinosaursAreNotDead (14 months ago | reply)
Lovely effect with Dither !!! Back to 1980 ! :)))
DinosaursAreNotDead (14 months ago | reply)
And the effect is just AWESOOOOOME !
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jacilluch (14 months ago | reply)
great ...idea...I not did :(((
dualdflipflop (14 months ago | reply)
Sad Mac says: "Hi Bill!!!"
iminlovewithjulie (14 months ago | reply)
Re: "It is a shame Bill Atkinson did not receive an iPhone as a gift from Apple !" Actually, he was offered a free phone, but he waited in line anyway, because he didn't want just one phone. I think he bought 4 that day. (Apple had a limit of 2 per customer, but they waived that limit for Bill.)
dualdflipflop (14 months ago | reply)
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