From 5bc6fef253e7a056b7b0c33a696d7a8aa79d9d26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Sean P. Myrick V19.1.7.2" <65933340+seanpm2001@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 13:45:01 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] An article on the Cyberdog web application suite. --- Cyberdog.md | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Cyberdog.md diff --git a/Cyberdog.md b/Cyberdog.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..80eab77 --- /dev/null +++ b/Cyberdog.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ + +*** + +# Cyberdog + +![https://github.com/seanpm2001/WacOS/blob/master/Browser/OpenCyberdog/Graphics/GIF/Cyberdog.gif](https://github.com/seanpm2001/WacOS/blob/master/Browser/OpenCyberdog/Graphics/GIF/Cyberdog.gif) + +_Not to be confused with [OpenCyberdog](https://github.com/seanpm2001/WacOS/wiki/OpenCyberdog)_ + +Cyberdog was a OpenDoc-based web browser application suite developed by Apple in the late 1990s. It was discontinued, as it wasn't successful, and Apple was losing significant amounts of money at the time (they almost went out of business. but then Bill Gates donated US$150,000,000 to Apple via stocks in 1997, and Apple continued to this day) [[1]](https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/29/steve-jobs-and-bill-gates-what-happened-when-microsoft-saved-apple.html) + +Upon terminating the project, Steve Jobs said that they "put a bullet through cyberdogs head" + +Cyberdog was named after the New Yorker comic with the caption `"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog"` + +## Recreation project + +Cyberdog is being recreated as [OpenCyberdog](https://github.com/seanpm2001/WacOS/wiki/OpenCyberdo), an open source, low end variant to Cyberdog. + +## Sources + +[[1]](https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/29/steve-jobs-and-bill-gates-what-happened-when-microsoft-saved-apple.html) - CNBC - Steve Jobs and Bill gates - What happened when Microsoft saved Apple (2017.08.29) [[recommend a better additional source]](https://github.com/seanpm2001/WacOS/issues/) + +More sources coming soon, although right now, most information comes from the Cyberdog Wikipedia article. + +*** + +## Article info + +**Written on:** `Wednesday, 2021 September 15th at 1:45 pm)` + +**File format:** `Markdown document (*.md *.mkd *.markdown)` + +**Article version:** `1 (Wednesday, 2021 September 15th at 1:45 pm)` + +***