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In fact, I learned about it from Hacker News! Someone posted it here as a “self” post a good 20 minutes before news outlets or even Apple reported it.

Same here. I’ll never forget walking into my boss’s office with the news. We ended up grabbing our iPods (remember those) and going for a walk together in our music. That was a sad day but a special moment in my career.

I was eating at a campus canteen in a research institute in East Asia. And I saw it on TV. It was weird. I remember where I was on 9/11 and for that.

Actually: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2011-10-05

Also look at https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2011-10-06

and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3078988

WOw pretty good memory you guys! I see you were watching HN that day. I don't think I even knew what HN was then.

I find it ironic, or fitting, that the 30th story on Oct 6 2011 is actually about Flash, a thing that died relatively soon after, in no small part due to Steve!

I found out while sitting in a hotel lobby at Abode's MAX conference in LA. Watching the news ripple through the tech crowd attending was something.