To me it's not nostalgia, the system felt truly great to use. Haven't met anything as good since then.

And while I agree that Steve Jobs and Next were the right business (and people) choice, I still mourn the loss of a much better UI (never been a fan of the Mac UI, and it's my daily at-work system).

One never knows where to go if one doesn't know where we've been. So many mistakes in tech can be avoided by realising somebody had made that mistake before you.

I'm a computer science teacher at the high school and part of what I do is make my students use old operating systems (via InfiniteMac.org and others) and ask them to identify what's the same on those older OS, what's better, and what's worse, and why.

My hope is that they don't just waste time by keeping on reinventing the wheel, getting burnt by the most easily avoided mistakes, or reviving something we've made the mistake of leaving behind.

Nostalgia is an addictive drug.