Steve Jobs will kick off Apple’s WorldWide Developers’ Conference (WWDC) on Monday, and the world will be watching to see what Apple has in store for Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud. To help pass the time until Monday afternoon, we have compiled some memorable moments from the past ten years of WWDC.
WWDC was first held in Monterey, California in 1983. This small gathering of developers has blossomed into one of the major annual events for Apple’s extended community of vendors, engineers and enterprise/academic IT management.
In addition to the ‘meat’ of the event (technical sessions covering hundreds of topics for developers, code labs and face time with Apple engineering staff), WWDC has become an opportunity for Apple to announce new versions of Mac OS X, new hardware and new versions of iOS. The event has grown in importance as Apple has eliminated or scaled back its participation in trade shows like Macworld Expo.
Read on for the best of WWDC Past: a funeral for an operating system, a spoof of Steve Jobs and much applause.
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WWDC: Looking back at the past 10 years originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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