Editing NeXTSTEP (section)

==Legacy==
The first [[web browser]], [[WorldWideWeb]], and the first [[app store]]<ref name="3W36a">{{Cite web|url=https://appstorey.com/2016/04/11/jesse-tayler-talks-appstore-and-nextstep-with-appstorey/|title=Jesse Tayler talks App Store and NeXTSTEP with AppStorey|date=April 11, 2016|website=AppStorey|language=en|access-date=January 9, 2019}}</ref> were all invented on the NeXTSTEP platform.

{{blockquote|1990 CERN: A Joint proposal for a hypertext system is presented to the management. Mike Sendall buys a NeXT cube for evaluation, and gives it to [[Tim Berners-Lee]]. Tim's prototype implementation on NeXTSTEP is made in the space of a few months, thanks to the qualities of the NeXTSTEP software development system. This prototype offers WYSIWYG browsing/authoring! Current Web browsers used in "surfing the Internet" are mere passive windows, depriving the user of the possibility to contribute. During some sessions in the CERN cafeteria, Tim and I try to find a catching name for the system. I was determined that the name should not yet again be taken from Greek mythology. Tim proposes "World-Wide Web". I like this very much, except that it is difficult to pronounce in French...|[[Robert Cailliau]], 2 November 1995<ref name="Ben">{{cite web|url=http://www.netvalley.com/cgi-bin/intval/net_history.pl?chapter=4|title=Roads and Crossroads of Internet History Chapter 4: Birth of the Web}}</ref>
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Some features and [[keyboard shortcuts]] now common to web browsers originated in NeXTSTEP conventions. The basic layout options of [[HTML]] 1.0 and 2.0 are attributable to those features of NeXT's Text class.<ref name="EA2Zg">{{cite web|url=http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html|title=Tim Berners-Lee: WorldWideWeb, the first Web client}}</ref>

[[Lighthouse Design|Lighthouse Design Ltd]]. developed ''Diagram!'', a drawing tool, originally called BLT (for Box-and-Line Tool) in which objects (boxes) are connected together using "smart links" (lines) to construct diagrams such a [[flow chart]]s. This basic design can be enhanced by the simple addition of new links and new documents, located anywhere in the local area network, that foreshadowed Tim Berners-Lee's initial prototype that was written on NeXTSTEP in October–December 1990.{{citation needed|date=June 2021}}

In the 1990s, the pioneering PC games ''[[Doom (1993 video game)|Doom]]'', ''[[Doom II]]'', ''[[Quake (video game)|Quake]]'', and their respective level editors were [[Development of Doom#Programming|developed]] by [[id Software]] on NeXT machines. Other games based on the [[Doom engine|''Doom'' engine]] such as ''[[Heretic (video game)|Heretic]]'' and its sequel ''[[Hexen: Beyond Heretic|Hexen]]'' by [[Raven Software]], and ''[[Strife (1996 video game)|Strife]]'' by [[Rogue Entertainment]] were developed on NeXT hardware using id's tools.<ref name="iQQWn">{{cite web|url=http://rome.ro/2006/12/apple-next-merger-birthday.html|title=Apple-NeXT Merger Birthday!|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070305165006/http://rome.ro/2006/12/apple-next-merger-birthday.html|archive-date=March 5, 2007}}</ref>

[[Altsys]] made the NeXTSTEP application Virtuoso, version 2 of which was ported to Mac OS and Windows to become [[Macromedia FreeHand]] version 4. The modern "Notebook" interface for [[Mathematica]], and the advanced spreadsheet [[Lotus Improv]], were developed using NeXTSTEP. The software that controlled [[MCI Communications|MCI]]'s Friends and Family calling plan program was developed using NeXTSTEP.<ref name="rnZlL">{{cite web|url=http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/141B0B5A-C8DE-49D2-BFDF-DB75E44A3285.html|title=Why OS X is on the iPhone, but not the PC|date= January 24, 2007|website=Roughly Drafted|quote=MCI used NeXT software to power its revolutionary Friends and Family networking referral campaign, which other rivals couldn't match for years.}}</ref><ref name="mJqf8">{{cite web|url=http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Business/NextOrderOfBusiness.html|title=Water Utility Consultants {{!}} Water Utility Consulting by StepWise|website=Stepwise.com|date=September 12, 2012|access-date=July 17, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060407085233/http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Business/NextOrderOfBusiness.html|archive-date=April 7, 2006}}</ref>

About the time of the release of NeXTSTEP 3.2, NeXT partnered with [[Sun Microsystems]] to develop [[OpenStep]]. It is the product of an effort to separate the underlying operating system from the higher-level object libraries to create a cross-platform object-oriented API standard derived from NeXTSTEP. [[OpenStep]] was released for Sun's [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]], [[Windows NT]], and NeXT's [[Mach kernel]]-based operating system. NeXT's implementation is called "OPENSTEP for Mach" and its first release (4.0) superseded NeXTSTEP 3.3 on NeXT, Sun, and Intel [[IA-32]] systems.

Following an announcement on December 20, 1996,<ref name="6Wesm">{{cite press release|title=Apple Computer, Inc. Agrees to Acquire NeXT Software Inc.|publisher=Apple Computer, Inc.|date=December 20, 1996|url=http://live.apple.com/next/961220.pr.rel.next.html | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970301172356/http://live.apple.com/next/961220.pr.rel.next.html | archive-date=March 1, 1997 | access-date=April 12, 2013}}</ref> [[Apple Computer]] acquired NeXT on February 4, 1997, for $429 million. Based upon the "[[OPENSTEP]] for Mach" operating system, and developing the OpenStep API to become [[Cocoa (API)|Cocoa]], Apple created the basis of [[Mac OS X]],<ref name="EVcL5">{{cite book| title=Apple Confidential: The Real Story of Apple Computer, Inc| url=https://archive.org/details/appleconfidentia00linz| url-access=registration|last=Linzmayer|first=Owen W.|year= 1999| publisher=No Starch Press| isbn=9781886411289}}</ref> and eventually of [[iOS]], [[iPadOS]], [[watchOS]], and [[tvOS]].

[[GNUstep]] is a [[free software]] implementation of the OpenStep standard.<ref name="GNUStep: Introduction">{{cite web | title=GNUStep: Introduction | publisher=GNUStep.org | url=http://gnustep.org/information/aboutGNUstep.html | access-date=May 2, 2013}}</ref>