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by mtzaldo 1882 days ago
close the world, open the next
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It's perhaps worth noting here that the tagline is actually stylised as:

"Close the world, open the nExt."[0]

with the capitalisation presumably being a reference to the company NeXT, founded by Steve Jobs.[1]

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0500092/taglines

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT

Seems likely, with how many other Apple-adjacent references are in the series (including Copland among another things).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copland_(operating_system)

Here's a list of all the references that people found at the time (ish)

https://www.cjas.org/~leng/apple-lain.htm