Jef Raskin 1943–2005

On this site, I've been perhaps overly assertive about my love for the Macintosh platform. After all, it doesn't matter if you use a paintbrush or a chisel; a good work of art has less to do with the tool and more to do with the artist. So if you create something spectacular on a Windows machine, I probably won't know the difference.

Nevertheless, rarely do we cp [file] /[file] any more. We drag one icon to another icon while holding the Option key. And we can thank Jef Raskin for that. If it weren't for Jef Raskin, there wouldn't be a Macintosh computer, much less a Windows computer. One of the most important nerds of all time has passed away.

Moment of silence for Jef Raskin.




























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