April Fool's Day Is Fun.
1998: "MacOS X Screenshot". Back when everyone was desperate to know
what MacOS X looked like. An April Fool's joke that several months
later turned into a Stepwise contest, and was written up in Slashdot.
Hooray! Got massive numbers of contestants.
http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/DBunker/ScreamShot.html
2000: "Essence" MacOS X Porting Libraries
At the time, MacOS X developers on comp.sys.next.* were desperate for a
way to get Cocoa apps to run on NT
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=8c5ao7%24fdh%242%40cronkite.
cs.umd.edu&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dauthor:Sean%2Bauthor:Luke%26hl%3Den%26scoring%3Dr%26as_drrb%3Db%26as_mind%3D1%26as_minm%3D4%26as_miny%3D2000%26as_maxd%3D1%26as_maxm%3D4%26as_maxy%3D2000%26selm%3D8c5ao7%2524fdh%25242%2540cronkite.
cs.umd.edu%26rnum%3D1
2000: The "iPad"
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=8c59mu%24fdh%241%40cronkite.
cs.umd.edu&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dauthor:Sean%2Bauthor:Luke%26hl%3Den%26scoring%3Dr%26as_drrb%3Db%26as_mind%3D1%26as_minm%3D4%26as_miny%3D2000%26as_maxd%3D1%26as_maxm%3D4%26as_maxy%3D2000%26selm%3D8c59mu%2524fdh%25241%2540cronkite.
cs.umd.edu%26rnum%3D2
2001: "JavaJukebox" Waba-based MP3 Player
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=9a7nga%246cm%241%40cronkite.
cs.umd.edu&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dauthor:Sean%2Bauthor:Luke%26hl%3Den%26scoring%3Dr%26as_drrb%3Db%26as_mind%3D1%26as_minm%3D4%26as_miny%3D2001%26as_maxd%3D1%26as_maxm%3D4%26as_maxy%3D2001%26selm%3D9a7nga%25246cm%25241%2540cronkite.
cs.umd.edu%26rnum%3D1
Still, not as impressive as NewtQuake -- that one even got me.
Sean
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