Jason Snell, Macworld, with a nostalgic look back at a critical transition for the Mac, one that occurred 20 years ago.

Side note: I was at Metrowerks at the time, and had the chance to play with early betas of that first new re-roll of MacOS. I remember being mystified by the completely reinvented Finder, especially the multi-column browser, lifted from NeXT’s interface. It felt like a forced fit at the time, but now I can’t imagine going back to the old version.

Interestingly, Steve left Apple and came back on September 16th, leaving in 1985, then returning in 1997.