Chapter 1
The garage and the Macintosh revolution
Chapter 2
The exile, NeXT, and Pixar
Chapter 3
The return and the colorful comeback
Chapter 4
The smartphone era and lasting legacy
YOUR GOAL
Master of Steve Jobs and the story of Apple
Ch 2 · The exile, NeXT, and Pixar
steve Apple's NeXT Chapter
A founder's vision came home to thrive, With NeXT's OS, Apple came alive!
steve In 1986, Steve Jobs purchased Lucasfilm's computer graphics division for $5 million, renaming it Pixar and pivoting it toward digital animation.
steve The advanced software of the NeXT computer enabled British scientist Tim Berners-Lee to create the world's very first web browser and server.
BETA
steve Drag key tech innovations into place to master the rise, fall, and return of Apple.
Fun Fact
The first web server: The world's first web server ran on a NeXT cube computer with a hand-written label warning people not to power it down.
Glossary
exile (noun)
The state of being barred from one's native country, typically for political or punitive reasons. Following his 1985 departure from Apple, Steve Jobs spent his temporary exile founding NeXT and acquiring Pixar.
The state of being barred from one's native country, typically for political or punitive reasons. Following his 1985 departure from Apple, Steve Jobs spent his temporary exile founding NeXT and acquiring Pixar.
Quiz
How much did Disney pay to acquire Pixar in 2006, making Steve Jobs Disney's largest individual shareholder?
Quiz
What operating system developed by NeXT eventually became the foundation for Apple's macOS?
Quiz
Which 1995 film was the world's first fully computer-animated feature film, produced by Pixar?
Quiz
Which Apple product launched in Jobs's absence in 1993 was an early, unsuccessful handheld personal digital assistant?
Quiz
What groundbreaking software did British scientist Tim Berners-Lee write using a NeXT computer in 1990?