NeXT
NeXT, Inc. was an American computer company founded in 1985 by Steve Jobs after his departure from Apple, known for its advanced workstations and the NeXTSTEP operating system. Its technologies—including object‑oriented frameworks, Display PostScript, and Interface Builder—were highly influential and underpinned the birth of the World Wide Web on a NeXT machine at CERN. Apple acquired NeXT in early 1997 for roughly $400 million; NeXT’s software became the core of Mac OS X (now macOS).
