CEO of @ OmniGroup , a small Seattle-based software company who have won five Apple Design Awards (for @ OmniFocus , @ OmniGraffle , and @ OmniWeb ). Enthusiastic about doing things early: university at age 14; AppKit on NeXT in 1989; apps on launch days for Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad, watchOS, and visionOS. Gamer. Helped Wizards launch Magic: the Gathering. Helped with Doom on NeXT; with Quake, Oni, and Fallout 1/2 on Mac OS X. #searchable # fedi22
CEO of @ OmniGroup , a small Seattle-based software company who have won five Apple Design Awards (for @ OmniFocus , @ OmniGraffle , and @ OmniWeb ). Enthusiastic about doing things early: university at age 14; AppKit on NeXT in 1989; apps on launch days for Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad, watchOS, and visionOS. Gamer. Helped Wizards launch Magic: the Gathering. Helped with Doom on NeXT; with Quake, Oni, and Fallout 1/2 on Mac OS X. #searchable # fedi22
In early 1985, Henry Nussbacher sent a letter to all Bitnet contacts calling for admins to hunt down and destroy every chat server because a dozen users actively chatting could bring file transfers to a halt—file transfers being the primary purpose of the network.
Jeff Kell realized that the problem wasn't chatting itself, but redundant traffic from independent connections. So he built the first Relay chat system. I got involved in August, setting up the 10th relay server and contributing code.
