- Apple sold only Macs—including PowerMacs—and iPods with buttons. There was no iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, or Apple Watch.
- iCloud was called .Mac (that was before MobileMe, but after iTools).
- You had to
-retainand-release, and use square brackets. - WWDC had early bird pricing, and ADC called to beg you to come. It also had feedback and WebObjects sessions.
- Karl Moskowski and David LeBer get the idea to start a CAWUG-like group.
- We take a road trip to Chicago for their next meeting, to see how they do things.
- We decide to call ourselves the "Toronto Area Cocoa and WebObjects Developers Group", with the quasi-acronym "tacow".
- We meet with Apple Canada's Willi Powell about starting the group.
- We announce the group.
- CocoaHeads lists us as the first international chapter. They also send prizes for our first meeting.
- About 50 people show up at our first meeting on April 11, at the Market Centre at Apple Canada's old Markham HQ. Karl does a presentation on setting up and using Subversion, and David speaks about using WebObjects with AJAX.
- Our second meeting is our first at Ryerson University, thanks to a Willi Powell introduction. Mark Ritchie is the presenter, discussing the use of Shark to tune Cocoa & WebObjects apps.
- Our biggest meeting ever—we had about 90 people to see pre-release demo of Leopard by Ken Bereskin, then a marketing VP at Apple.
- Ryerson is our home. All of our meetings are there during this period.
- Presenters are hard to find, so it's often the Karl & Dave show.
- Our usual attendance is 15-20 people.
- The rise of the iOS SDK makes presenters easier to find, so we switch to an every-other-month schedule.
- Our first meeting at Metro Hall. It becomes our home for the next few years.
- Our first Meetup-powered meeting. AgileBits covers our organizer fees.
- We begin holding meetings at locations other than Metro Hall more frequently.
- Our first "nomadic" meeting, at The Score.
- Our 51st meeting and our nominal 10th anniversary. During this time, we've had 28 different speakers.
- After more than 10 years running tacow, Karl Moskowski and David LeBer step down as organizers, handing over the reins to Robin Senior and Paddy O'Brien.