Steve Jobs once said that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have happened to him, it made him rethink about himself and recreate things that he could not have done staying at Apple. But one iconic day in the history of Apple must be the night when Steve Jobs returned back to the company on the night of December 20th 1996 when Apple help a surprise emergency meeting to break the news to its employees. Thanks to Mac OS Evangelist Tim Holmes and the sharp eyes of DaringFireball to share these nostalgic moments with all of us.
As recalled by Tim Holmes this is what happened that night “Working late on a Friday on December 20th at Apple Computer as Mac OS Evangelist, my manager came rushing past my office door saying to come with him to Town Hall, Apple’s theater for announcements, company meetings and the like. It was clearly not a company meeting…
I called Mitch, my wife who also worked there at the time, and told her meet me there. We had no idea what was about to happen…
I tend to take a camera everywhere, so I had my Apple QuickTake camera, which Steve Jobs killed within the year. The colors are way off due to the poor quality of digital cameras in 1996, Steve’s jacket was black in real life.”
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