skip to comments

RIP Jef Raskin 1943-2005

The saw the sad news that Jef Raskin died the other day. Jef created the Macintosh computer as employee number 31 at Apple in the early 1980s, revolutionizing computer interface design.

Jeff Raskinphoto: Marcin Wichary

Jef invented “click and drag” and many other methods now taken for granted by computer users. He named the Macintosh project after his favorite variety of apple, the McIntosh, modifying the spelling for copyright purposes.

A great pioneer..

Tags: ,

This entry was posted at 2:59 pm on Tuesday, March 1st, 2005. You can follow any responses to this post through the RSS 2.0 feed. It would be nice to read your comments below. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Go ahead, have your say ..

You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong> <pre lang="" line="">

back to the top