New site features - February 2002

• Message boards - Share your latest announcements, job listings, and news with the QuickTime community.
• People Connection - Catch up with an old friend or contact a digital media visionary.
• QuickTime 10 Party Photos - Experience the magic one more time.
• QuickTime Live! 2002 Photos - Friends of Time on the road. If you've got QuickTime Live! photos to share, please let us know.

Friends of Time would like to thank R/com Networks and Skip Ferderber & Associates for their generous support.

Friends of Time in the News!

• MacAddict. QuickTime: Ten Years Later.
• San Jose Mercury News. Pioneering QuickTime still dominates the multimedia picture.
• Hollywood Reporter. "QuickTime for a celebration." Featuring quotes from Todd Rundgren.
• MacCentral. Friends of Time Celebrate Quicktime's big 10. With pictures!
  
• MacWire. Friends of Time coverage from Japan.
  
• vnunet - UK technology site. QuickTime is history.
• slashdot.org. Experience the love, the hate, and the ill-informed rants!
• MacCentral. QuickTime anniversary celebration this weekend.
• AV Video Producer. All about the plans to mark the 10th Anniversary of QuickTime.
• "I, Cringely" on pbs. Robert X. Cringely writes on QuickTime's place in history (second half of the column).

Friends of Time Party!

The Friends of Time celebration of QuickTime 10th anniversary took place on Saturday December 1 in San Francisco. It was a rainy night, but that didn't seem to slow anyone down. Cars were lined up down the street. People were lined up out the door waiting to check in. Inside people were packed from wall to wall. Amazing live music was provided Bird³. Great food was provided by the venue, Foreign Cinema. In the courtyard was a continuous showing of hours of classic QuickTime movies. Upstairs was an exhibit of hundreds of QuickTime artifacts.

The strength, energy, and passion of the QuickTime community has never been so clearly on display. Hundreds of members of the community who have contributed to QuickTime's success throughout the last decade were in attendence, from members of the original QuickTime at Apple team and pioneering content creators, to some of the most recent additions to the QuickTime community.

We've got a great collection of photographs of the event, which we'll be posting on this site in the coming days. We'll also be posting the "QuickTime Time Line" that was on display at the party.

Our thanks to the many volunteers who helped put this event together. And of course, thanks to the hundreds of members of the community who turned out to make the party an incredibly special evening for everyone.

Welcome!

Friends of Time is an organization dedicated to the community of artists, developers, and users that have contributed to Apple Computer's revolutionary QuickTime technology.

Work on QuickTime 1.0 was completed on December 2, 1991 with an official product launch at MacWorld San Francisco in January 1992. QuickTime redefined multimedia from a complex landscape of laser discs and video playback boards to a simple, elegant, universally available software-only digital media solution.

There are few technologies which manage to endure for ten years, especially in such a competitive industry. Not only has QuickTime survived, it remains vibrant and relevant. It continues to help shape the future of digital media.

This web site is designed to encourage participation from the entire community. If you have additions or corrections to any of the information you find here, we want to hear about it.