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A ledger, not a library.

In 1983 Apple gathered its developers at the Dunfey Hotel in San Mateo — the conference that became WWDC. This site keeps the modern record: every session Apple still publishes, indexed by category, duration, the code shown on screen, and how each session links to the others.

The house

The Dunfey Hotel in San Mateo, photographed in 1985 — a low building in the style of a Tudor castle.
The Dunfey Hotel, San Mateo, 1985.

It opened as a Royal Coach Inn, built like a Tudor castle, and spent its years inside the Dunfey family's chain of motor inns before becoming the Regency Plaza in 1997. The site is a Marriott today.

Its one claim on this page: in August 1983 it hosted the Apple Independent Software Developers Conference — the gathering that grew into WWDC. The trade report at the time ran under the headline “Report from the Castle.” We kept the name, and the date.

Photograph and history from Dunfey Hotels on the Apple Wiki (Fandom), under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Everything links to the source. Videos, transcripts, sample code and documentation live at developer.apple.com; this site stores metadata and aggregates only, for research and education, non-commercially.

Counted honestly. Apple revises its catalog over time — sessions are removed, labs are pruned, history shifts. Counts here come from snapshot 4355 of Apple's public feed (updated 2026-06-11), and years before 2019 reflect what remains published, not the full conference that took place.

Built as an open static site: source on GitHub (MIT). The data is fetched from Apple's public feed at build time and never committed.

WWDC is a trademark of Apple Inc. This site is independent — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Apple. Analytics are self-hosted and cookieless; no personal data is collected. Questions or concerns: [email protected].