First public Internet service provided by dial-up modem, in 1992. This is how we configured those connections in 2001, and connected via a mobile phone and Bluetooth.
Mac OS 8
From early code pages based on language-specific variants of Extended ASCII, through 2-byte support in WorldScript II, to Unicode and the annual emoji update.
Classic Mac OS stored a great deal of structured data in the resource forks of its files. Those were edited using ResEdit, an essential tool for every advanced user.
Although viruses native to the Mac arrived slightly later, by the end of the 1990s there were at least 35. Here’s a brief look at the tools available then.
Managing memory and its problems was an important part of running Classic Mac OS, but everything changed in Mac OS X. Do we still need apps to do that?
How to connect to the internet in Mac OS 8.6 in 2001, using a dial-up modem.
For a while, most users worked in Mac OS 8.6, 9.0 was new and a beast, and there was also the Public Beta of Mac OS X. So how did we manage memory then?
In Classic Mac OS, icons were determined by hidden databases. Here’s what we had to do periodically to keep them from breaking.
It’s often suggested that developing macOS on a two-year cycle, as it used to be, would result in fewer bugs or problems. What’s the evidence?
The Desktop and Finder illusions rely on files having a type and creator, and an icon association. These were kept in the Desktop Database, and are now the responsibility of Launch Services.
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