# The Deep History of Your Apps: Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early Object-Oriented Programming | Computer History Museum - Host: [computerhistory.org](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/computerhistory.org/) - Saved: March 22, 2016 (2016-03-22T18:01:07Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/7dd634a23ff3/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/7dd634a23ff3.json ## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words) Since 2008, over a hundred billion apps have been downloaded from Apple’s App Store onto users’ iPhones or iPads. Thousands of software developers have written these apps for Apple’s “iOS” mobile platform. However, the technology and tools powering the mobile “app revolution” are not themselves new, but rather have a long history spanning over thirty years, one which connects back to not only NeXT, the company Steve Jobs started in 1985, but to the beginnings of software engineering and object-oriented programming in the late 1960s. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Same host - [In His Own Words: Gary Kildall - CHM](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/49ccdac7beea/) (computerhistory.org, July 21, 2025) ## Saved the same week - [Apple's '40 Years in 40 Seconds' Video Annotated](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/304b7bab012a/) (512pixels.net, March 22, 2016) - [On the trail with Donald Trump’s “disgusting” press corps.](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/809242dd7007/) (slate.com, March 22, 2016) - [Andy – Andreessen Horowitz](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d3505261cebc/) (a16z.com, March 22, 2016) - [Blitzscaling](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/30fa57050964/) (hbr.org, March 23, 2016) - [TripMode](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/8f42ab3c99bd/) (tripmode.ch, March 23, 2016) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-deep-history-of-your-apps-steve-jobs-nextstep-and-early-object-oriented-programming/