On this day in 1984,Nanda van Bergen the computer that launched a thousand nerds was born.
SEE ALSO: How the Mac's Power Has Changed in 3 DecadesApple CEO Tim Cook posted a happy birthday message on Twitter to the original Macintosh, which debuted 35 years ago today.
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The year 1984 was a wild time, and not just because it was when Apple — whose later invention, the iPhone, would spark fears about the surveillance state imagined in the book 1984— became a global phenomena. But also because there were bowties.
Steve Jobs debuts the Macintosh at a 1984 shareholder meeting. Credit: Paul Sakuma/AP/REX/Shutterstock Maybe Steve Jobs' hands are just really big, but the original Mac looks tiny! With just a 9-inch black and white monitor, this baby originally sold for about $2,500 — the equivalent of around $5,000 today.
The Apple Macintosh was designed by Steve Jobs to be as 'user-friendly' as possible. Jobs wanted to produce an 'appliance computer' that clients could unpack, plug in and start to use with very little computer knowledge. It was also designed to use a graphical display rather than the standard text-based display previously used. Credit: SSPL via Getty Images So many small-yet-clunky computers, assembling to change the world.
Thousands of Apple Macintosh computers sit on double decked manufacturing lines for their 48 hour "burn in" in Freemont, CA. Credit: Paul Sakuma/AP/REX/Shutterstock Steve Jobs debuted the first Mac alongside then-Apple President John Sculley. Apparently, not everyone loved bowties.
Side note: Look at that double-breasted jacket on Steve.
New lewk, who dis. Credit: Marilyn K. Yee/New York Times Co./Getty Images The Mac had some pretty snazzy features, like this mouse and keypad, which both look extremely satisfying to press.
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Apple still needed to do some convincing that its personal computer could truly be personal — that is, both usable and useful to the average person. It launched a massive ad campaign to show that "If You Can Point, You Can Use a Macintosh, too." Today, we've come a long way from needing to convince people that computers are something they might want to use. But Apple's intuitive design has made this slogan pretty much hold true.
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Happy 35th birthday, Macintosh! Hope you won't let your company's mid-life crisis get you down.
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