Editing NeXT Computer (section)

==Legacy==
[[Image:First Web Server.jpg|thumb|This [[NeXTcube]] was used by [[Tim Berners-Lee]] as the first server on the [[World Wide Web]].]]

A NeXT Computer and its [[object-oriented]] development tools and libraries were used by [[Tim Berners-Lee]] and [[Robert Cailliau]] at [[CERN]] to develop the world's first [[web server]] ([[CERN httpd]]) and [[web browser]] ([[WorldWideWeb]]).

The NeXT platform was used by Jesse Tayler at Paget Press to develop the first electronic [[app store]], called the Electronic AppWrapper, in the early 1990s. Issue #3 was first demonstrated to [[Steve Jobs]] at NeXTWorld Expo 1993.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndZnF555USI |title=Electronic App Wrapper Sept 93 NeXT CD 1st App Store Jesse Tayler, Yes Black Holes Exist Rob Blessin |date=2024-05-19 |last=Rob Blessin |access-date=2025-04-22 |via=YouTube}}</ref>

Pioneering PC games ''[[Doom (1993 video game)|Doom]]'', ''[[Doom II]]'', and ''[[Quake (video game)|Quake]]'' (with respective level editors) were [[Development of Doom#Programming|developed]] by [[id Software]] on NeXT machines. [[Doom engine|''Doom'' engine]] games such as ''[[Heretic (video game)|Heretic]]'', ''[[Hexen: Beyond Heretic|Hexen]]'', and ''[[Strife (1996 video game)|Strife]]'' were also developed on NeXT hardware using id's tools.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rome.ro/2006/12/apple-next-merger-birthday.html|title=Apple-NeXT Merger Birthday!|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070305165006/http://rome.ro/2006/12/apple-next-merger-birthday.html|archive-date=March 5, 2007}}</ref>

NeXT technology provisioned the first online food delivery system called [[CyberSlice]], using GIS based geolocation, on which Steve Jobs performed the first online order of pizza with tomato and basil.{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}} CyberSlice was curated into the Inventions of the 20th Century, Computer Science<ref>{{cite web | title=CyberSlice, Incorporated | url=http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=Cyberslice | website=Smithsonian Institution | access-date=2019-06-21 | archive-date=2021-03-25 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210325162012/https://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=Cyberslice | url-status=live }}</ref> at the [[Smithsonian Institution]] in Washington, D.C.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://appstorey.com/2019/06/06/appstorey-talks-with-steve-green/|title=AppStorey talks with Steve Green about Steve Jobs, The Smithsonian and how a pizza with basil became the first food delivered via the web|date=June 6, 2019|website=AppStorey|language=en|access-date=June 7, 2019|archive-date=June 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607195248/https://appstorey.com/2019/06/06/appstorey-talks-with-steve-green/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=PMQ Pizza Magazine|title=How Steve Jobs Made Pizza History|date=June 3, 2019|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxR6I-KRAug |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/oxR6I-KRAug| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|access-date=June 7, 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref>