Happy 25th Birthday, Mac!
January 24th 2009
The Macintosh (wikipedia) was the first commercially successful personal computer ($2,495) to offer a graphical interface and pioneered "what you see is what you get" (WYSIWYG) desktop publishing with the aid of applications like Aldus PageMaker.
Steve Jobs introduced the original Macintosh to Apple shareholders on January 24th, 1984:
Of course, what remembrance of the Mac would be complete without the "greatest television commercial of all-time"?
And, don't miss Andy Hertzfeld's Folklore.org, which is replete with early Apple anecdotes ("I invented Burrell!") and stories told by the people who were there.
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