MacInsider Rumors (10/17/97)
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Following MacInsider's recent abrupt and mysterious shutdown, Macintouch today posted that the plug got pulled shortly after Apple representatives visited the MacInsider offices. When coupled with Webintosh's suspicion that MacInsider was run by two ex-Apple employees who were laid off in last March's reorganization, we're starting to see some pretty serious clues as to who's behind the recent Ninja Attack Campaign that's shutting down Mac-centric web sites faster than you can say "The Mob Killed My Brother." Suppose Godfather Steve is extending his recent "plug the leaks" attack outside of Cupertino? After all, both Mac OS Rumors and MacInsider tended to print lots of, shall we say, "sensitive internal information..."

MaCNN, however, posted a story that paints a less ominous (and therefore much less entertaining) picture, but we feel compelled to pass it on in the interest of completeness. One of their sources claims that the two people who ran MacInsider were just offered "real" jobs at NBC and Ziff-Davis, so they're blowing their virtual popsicle stand in search of something that more closely resembles a real adult life.

And unless they were quietly snuffed by Godfather Steve's Ninja Mafia Hit Squad, the dubious attraction of a "real adult life" also seems to have claimed the AppleSauce site, which also shut down recently. Macintouch pointed us to the author's personal goodbye note, in which he claims that he no longer has "the free time, nor the inclination, to spend all of [his] free time following Apple." (Rest assured that we at AtAT have no desire to acquire any more maturity than the amount we currently tolerate, so we plan to be broadcasting well into the next millenium.)

Lastly, faithful viewer Hunt Anderson notes the following: "In the conspiracy theory, let's not forget the MacRumorMill (www.macrumormill.com) - the first site to fall. It disappeared right about the time that Reality (www.AmbrosiaSW.com/conspire/reality) became "heavily edited" on what Apple Legal would allow. The MacRumorMill used to post both developer notes and reviews of most Apple developer releases." Dangerous times, indeed.


 
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The above scene was taken from the 10/17/97 episode:

October 17, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 92: Two Faces of Newton (10/17/97)   Whom to believe? We were ecstatic when we read Mac the Knife's description of the long-rumored upcoming Newton MessagePad 2100; after all, who wouldn't want a splefty little handheld outfitted with the new StrongARM 1100 chip running at 200MHz, and capable of driving a color LCD at 1024x1024?...

  • 93: Yale Schmale (10/17/97)   The lovely and talented Donna Ladd, the freelance journalist who broke the news about Yale and the Intel Grant Scandal of 1997 (we think we'll call it YaleGate), wrote us to let us know that she has posted a long list of colleges and universities that have received money from said Intel grant...

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