Today, the world is celebrating 30 years of Apple’s Mac. 30 years ago exactly, Steve Jobs introduced the world to first Macintosh computer with the very famous 1984 commercial which aired during the 1984 Super bowl.
(Based on George Orwell’s novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four (authored in 1949) the commercial provided the allegory of the new Apple Macintosh computer providing an inspirational creative spark that would free individuals from the overbearing control of “Big Brother” – presumably, IBM’s Personal computer).
According to Walter Isaacson’s biography, Jobs was on a fruitarian diet when he visited an apple farm and hit upon the name. McIntosh sounded “fun, spirited and not intimidating,” Jobs said. The apple was named after John McIntosh, a New Yorker farming in Canada at the start of the 19th Century. The spelling changed to Macintosh to prevent copyright problems, and rights had to be secured for its abbreviated form. The Mac was born.
Here is a tweet from the current CEO of Apple, Tim Cook.
Happy Birthday Mac! My life is infinitely better because we met. Today we salute everything you stand for. http://t.co/seLULo2cQ6
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) January 24, 2014
Courtesy of 9to5mac.com, click to see Tim Cook, Craig Federighi talk about 30 years of Mac, secrecy, and sapphire crystal in an ABC interview commemorating the occasion.
Apple also released a visual timeline to show how the Mac has helped people. Check out the video below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp697DqsbUU
