WWDC's past

[GigaWire]

I don't really remember big WWDC announcements in the past. Could someone refresh my memory?

It just seems everyone is getting dressed up for a party that's been strictly casual in the past.

[arn]

Originally posted by GigaWire
I don't really remember big WWDC announcements in the past. Could someone refresh my memory?

It just seems everyone is getting dressed up for a party that's been strictly casual in the past.

2002:

http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2002/05/20020506131810.shtml

- Interim Mac OS X update between now and Jaguar which is due in late summer
- Sherlock 3: uses HTML, new channels
- Jaguar Finder improvements: integrated search, multithreaded, automatic thumbnails, spring loaded folders
- Quicktime 6 integrated into Jaguar.
- Universal Access
- Quartz Extreme: "Takes the compositing engine in Quartz, and accelerates it in graphics cards. Combines 2D, 3D and video in one hardware pipeline via OpenGL"
- Inkwell. Handwriting recognition technology. From the Newton presumably!
- Dynamic IP discovery.
- iChat: AIM-compatible messaging built in to Jaguar.
- Rack mount server in a week.

[Wardofsky]

Originally posted by arn
...Rack mount server in a week.

I remember that, someone took a quick pic of "Coming Soon" and a picture of an X-Serve underneath.

That was one thing that stirred up the forums.

[janey]

Originally posted by arn
- Dynamic IP discovery.
also known as Rendezvous

the death of OS 9 was declared by Steve Jobs at WWDC too, if that counts as a major announcement.