Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by CydeWeys 1289 days ago
Awesome, this is so cool! I remember MacOS 9 with a mix of fondness, hatred, and nostaglia. OS X was definitely a big improvement when it came out (I remember OS 9 having so many crashes), but some of the charm was definitely lost.

And these .app domain names you're all using in this space are great and totally apt. I love to see great usages of my work in the wild like this.
2 comments
Naracion 1289 days ago
> I love to see great usages of my work in the wild like this.

Out of curiosity and ignorance--what is the work you're referring to here which is being used for the project / website? The comment makes me feel it's the (dot)app TLD, in which case--fascinating! But also what does it even mean to work on something like that?

link
Cyphase 1289 days ago
I believe GP is the lead engineer of Google Registry. .app is owned and run by Google.
link
CydeWeys 1285 days ago
Indeed that is correct. For more information see:

https://registry.google

https://nomulus.foo (our open source software that runs our TLDs)

link
dylan604 1289 days ago
OS9 always seemed like little improvement over OS8. The biggest thing I remember was this was when they introduced the Applications folder. It's like they were trying to get you to get used to how the structure in OS X was going to be, but with no explanation.
link
simondotau 1289 days ago
OS9 was really just 8.7 but, as you describe, a stepping stone towards 10, both numerically and with a few nods to the future, e.g. Keychain Access, CarbonLib, and file/printer sharing over TCP.
link
WoodenChair 1289 days ago
Carbon worked all the way back with Mac OS 8.1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_(API)

link
mistrial9 1288 days ago
Carbon was a moving target; each "update" cut more core MacOS tools and added OSX service interfaces. It was quickly obvious that there was no intention of letting MacOS run in the future, so why port to Carbon? many social signals in the developer group at the same time.
link
simondotau 1289 days ago
Correct, but it wasn't shipped with the OS until MacOS 9.
link
CydeWeys 1289 days ago
Yeah, so looking back at the release dates of these, I definitely used at least back through OS 7, but I can't say I remember anything specifically about them because it's fading into the haze of youthful memories. In my mind it's all just pre-OS X and post-OS X, as that marks by far the biggest change in Mac OS functionality that I remember.
link