![]() ![]() I kept going there, hoping one time that I wouldn’t need the disk. Going to certain parts of the world would ask for a disk that I was unable to provide. We were missing one of the floppy disks for the Manhole. ‘Bonjour, mon ami.’ It wouldn’t be until many years later that I found out I knew how to say ‘Hello, my friend’ in French. One of the three French phrases I know, I learned from the Manhole. ![]() I clicked through the world and interacted with a talking rabbit inside of a fire hydrant and a walrus that paddled my rowboat for me. The Manhole was black and white, or maybe four shades of gray. It was made by Rand and Robin Miller, who would go on to create Myst. I spent even longer playing The Manhole. On defense, I chose Blitz! every time from the menu. The players were X’s, playing their hearts out on an overhead view of a lined black and white grid that was a football field. I spent hours and hours playing a game called Football on that SE. These are moments in time captured from the portion of my life that included both Apple and Steve Jobs. All throughout, Steve created products that I have loved using, just about every day. Now I am a copywriter at a design firm and he is an undeniable source of inspiration and admiration across the design industry. In my past, as an Apple Store employee, he was an inspirational boss. He was an incredible influence on my life. Since the age of two when my dad brought home a Mac SE there have been very few days in which I haven’t used an Apple product. ![]() You’ll still be able to tell how connected I am to Apple products and how inspired I’ve been many times by Jobs himself. With a little bit of distance from the actual day Jobs died, I was able to re-read this and clean up some of the sentimentality. A Macintosh has been a pretty consistent presence in my life, so I wanted to share some of my memories. Those were good and important, but the stories I enjoyed the most were the more personal memories of Steve Jobs or the ways Apple products have somehow nudged the paths of someone’s life in one way or another. Lots of people wrote about how innovative he was and how many amazing things he created. When Steve Jobs died, everyone wrote something about him. ![]()
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