Look at this fake "first ever web browser"

[RacerX]

Well, what can I add that others haven't already said?

It is real. That is the first ever web browser/editor. It was designed to read and create a modified version of SGML documents that included linked text within a document... this is where HTML started. And the name World Wide Web came directly from the name of the first web browser.

As for the authenticity of the image... the only thing wrong with it is that it is in color. But there is a gray scale image on his page too (he states that the screen shot was taken later on a color NeXT system, his original NeXTcube was not a color system).

As for the curser... yes, the Mac OS X curser is the same as the NEXTSTEP curser. In fact, the spinning disk curser in early versions of Mac OS X is identical to the NEXTSTEP spinning disk. That is because Mac OS X is a direct descendant of NEXTSTEP.

Attached is two shots of NEXTSTEP 3.3 taken a couple minutes ago. They show examples of the NEXTSTEP cursers.

[Mikuro]

If I'm not mistaken, the OS X cursor is the exact same as the classic Mac OS cursor used since System 1. The NeXT cursor is different by 1 pixel at the base of the arrow. The Mac OS (all versions) has a square, pointed lower-right corner. NeXT omits that pixel for a more rounded effect. I think Rhapsody uses the NeXT-style cursor.

Of course, today the OS X cursor is no longer black-and-white on most systems, but rather grayscale with a dynamic shadow. It now seems to have a more rounded lower-right (like NeXT), but a more pointy upper-left (like nothing else before! ).

Now that's enough UI pedantry for the day.

[RacerX]

I hadn't noticed that missing pixel before. Though it seems to be there on both my 8600 and ThinkPad running Rhapsody... so I guess they put it back after Apple bought NeXT.

[Lt Major Burns]

by 10.2 apple had stopped using the classic typeface and moved to Myriad Pro....

[symphonix]

There are lots of elements of Next throughout Mac OS X. If you look through some of the manual pages you'll find lots of kernel and unix system elements that show, under their "history" section, that they were introduced in NextStep or OpenStep. "open" is a good example.

AppleScript and Cocoa also have plenty of codebase that came over from Next. If you've ever programmed in Mac OS X and wondered why so many of the APIs have "ns" prefixes, it stands for "NextStep". The aquisition of NeXT by Apple (and the return of Steve Jobs as Apple's CEO) was a big part of making Mac OS X what it is today.

Anyway CJ the image is not fake. The first web-browser was on NeXT, and NeXT slowly evolved into what would become Mac OS X.

[RacerX]

Originally Posted by Lt Major Burns

by 10.2 apple had stopped using the classic typeface and moved to Myriad Pro....

Then some one should have told Apple that they changed at 10.2... because it wasn't change at Apple until 10.3.