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Title: Meet iCloud's great-grandfather: iTools Post by: HCK on January 25, 2016, 03:00:30 pm Meet iCloud's great-grandfather: iTools
This is the lineage of iCloud. In the beginning — 1994, to be exact — there was eWorld. It was weird, expensive, and poorly marketed. To no one's surprise, it went away. Six years later, there was iTools. iTools begat .Mac; .Mac begat MobileMe — and a lot of yelling; MobileMe begat iCloud. The genealogy is a little sparse on worldly details, I'll admit: eWorld was released at a time when the Mac was sagging, and it used AOL's technology to get off the ground. In contrast, by the time iTools was announced — (at the same keynote as the debut of the Aqua interface at Macworld 2000 — Apple had some major Internet technologies of its own in play: QuickTime 4 with Internet streaming Mac OS 9 with Sherlock 2 and Internet-ready features like keychains and multiple users Apple.com was seeing 9.5 million visitors a week Apple's online store was doing $1 billion worth of business a year — with the storefront using the company's WebObjects technology. Macworld 2000 also marked t...<br clear='all'/> <a href="http://rc.feedsportal.com/r/247389308964/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/4d1d4a92/sc/28/rc/1/rc.htm" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://rc.feedsportal.com/r/247389308964/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/4d1d4a92/sc/28/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/>[/url] <a href="http://rc.feedsportal.com/r/247389308964/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/4d1d4a92/sc/28/rc/2/rc.htm" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://rc.feedsportal.com/r/247389308964/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/4d1d4a92/sc/28/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/>[/url] <a href="http://rc.feedsportal.com/r/247389308964/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/4d1d4a92/sc/28/rc/3/rc.htm" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://rc.feedsportal.com/r/247389308964/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/4d1d4a92/sc/28/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/>[/url] <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/247389308964/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/4d1d4a92/sc/28/a2.img" border="0"/> (http://da.feedsportal.com/r/247389308964/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/4d1d4a92/sc/28/a2.htm)<img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/247389308964/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/4d1d4a92/sc/28/a2t.img" border="0"/><img width='1' height='1' src='(http://tipb.com.feedsportal.com/c/33998/f/616881/s/4d1d4a92/sc/28/mf.gif)' border='0'/> Source: Meet iCloud's great-grandfather: iTools (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/zs3X2xOoMuw/story01.htm) |