{"id":9253,"date":"2026-06-06T12:01:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T12:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9253"},"modified":"2026-06-06T12:01:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T12:01:27","slug":"steve-jobs-in-exile-is-a-fine-profile-of-jobs-years-at-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9253","title":{"rendered":"Steve Jobs in Exile is a fine profile of Jobs’ years at NeXT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Cyrus Farivar
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\nJune 5, 2026\n<\/div>\n\n

In the late 1990s, I was a precocious Mac nerd who pored over issues of Macworld, stayed up late chatting on IRC, and downloaded pirated software that I didn\u2019t actually need. I came of age at the tail end of the dial-up modem and BBS era\u2014and got to witness the early days of the World Wide Web.<\/p>\n

I wanted to know where all of this had come from and how it had happened so quickly. The grown-ups around me seemed mystified at best and indifferent at worst.<\/p>\n

So I turned to books. I read Fire in the Valley<\/em> (1984), Where Wizards Stay Up Late<\/em> (1996), Infinite Loop<\/em> (1999), and Dealers of Lightning<\/em> (1999). In my mind (and to a lesser degree, on my actual bookshelf), I had built a mental list of my favorite selections of late 20th-century tech journalism.<\/p>\n

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Cyrus Farivar • June 5, 2026 In the late 1990s, I was a precocious Mac nerd who pored over issues of Macworld, stayed up late chatting on IRC, and downloaded pirated software that I didn\u2019t actually need. I came of age at the tail end of the dial-up modem and BBS era\u2014and got to witness<\/p>\n

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