43. Ultimate Driving Machine
Made entirely using QuickTime technology, BMW and Apple teamed up in 1997 to create CyberDrive, a monthlong Web project featuring virtual roller coasters, space flights, test drives and various other interactive "adventures."
44. Pencil it in
OK, it's nowhere near as cool as Wall-E, but this was done in 1988 to show off the graphics power of the Macintosh II. QuickTime didn't drop until 1991, people. Think about it.
45. Y ask Y?
Remember Dec. 31, 1999, at around 11:59:59, when people were huddled in their bunkers with stacks of toilet paper and hoping the world's computers didn't accidentally destroy the world? Yeah, we don't either.
46. MythBusters
It wasn't easy convincing the masses that an 800 MHz PowerPC processor was faster than a 1.7 GHz Pentium 4 chip, so Steve quantified it with an easily understandable catch phrase. We're not really sure it worked ─ but it sure was fun to watch PC makers stammer and squirm whenever he said, "Megahertz myth."
47. I've got the Power
Things are all messy now with Pystar, but back in 1994, Apple abruptly opened up the Mac and its OS to clone makers, the first of which was a small start-up founded by an engineer named Steve Kahng. His company, Power Computing, may have saved Apple from ruin with its aggressive, irreverent ads that re-energized the base and kept everything simmering until Steve came back home.
48. Merch and destroy
Long after its catalog faded into lore, Apple kicked off the 2002 holiday shopping season by selling a variety of branded merchandise (pens, clocks, keychains, etc.) at its retail stores. Perfect for the Mac user who has everything, the Cupertino line of merchandise vanished as quickly as it arrived, leaving eBay and Red Light Runner to reap the profits.
49. Still Life with Mouse and Fruit
The Mac was such a monumental product for Apple, it had its own logo. Inspired by Pablo Picasso, it consisted of a rudimentary sketch of the computer, its mouse and an apple, simply stated and lightly colored. It would greeted Mac users for the next decade, when the smiling, two-faced Mac took over.
50. Bomb's away
While crashes are fewer and farther between with OS X, the ugly multi-language kernel panic screen that appears on our screen scares the heck out of us — so much so that it actually makes us long for the little bomb that ruined so many of our OS 9 projects (even though we never understood why he always yelled "Stack ran into heap" at us).
Is there something you miss that we didn't mention? Drop it in the comments and we'll relive the good ol' days together.
farexex
December 12, 2009 at 8:38pm
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December 04, 2009 at 10:17pm
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imajoebob
September 09, 2009 at 9:20pm
Apple can still have some fun, but the whimsy is gone. It now feels like Apple's humor is as carefully designed, implemented, and distributed as everything else from Cupertino. Thinking outside the box is scheduled from 2 PM to 3:30 PM today. Please plan accordingly. The colors have been supplanted by brushed metal. The white has been supplanted by brushed metal. Even the iPod, the most identifiable product design since the Coke bottle, has been replaced with cold, corporate metal. There's no way to tell what version you're running of any software without clicking on "About." Apple's drive to "perfect" the product is sucking the creativity out of it. There was once a little thrill in switching to Macs; you got a better computer and got to say you're an iconoclast (true or not). Now, you switch because it's a smarter choice than the PC. When I switched 6 years ago we all smiled. I could walk up to anyone with a Mac and ask to share their table. Now, Mac users are just as solitary as PCs. They don't make us smile like they used to.
standy
August 31, 2009 at 3:55pm
Man, oh man, that was the life. Our daughter was in 8th grade when we brought home the 128 K machine. It flavored her whole life and made her the geek she is today. Back before the internet, there were bulletin boards, and she was ther, lovin' every minute of it. I remember the screams from the "computer room" when the phone rang. Ah, it was a wonderful life. Mac addict Andy
Pan
August 29, 2009 at 2:08am
This article was like a breath of fresh air. I really miss the days when Apple seemed innocent, looking back. And even more, I miss the days when MacLife was MacAddict.
justinschwartz1
August 28, 2009 at 4:19am
I'm happy that you included the MHZ myth, but you forgot about some of the more 'recent' things, like when cd drives used to pop out, and when maclife was called macaddict, when you chose a startup disk, when worldbook was better than the internet, when otto matic came free with your mac and itunes had a sampler, when every new version of itunes brought with it a new color, when your ipod came with a case, when your computer came with all the cables you could possibly need, when iwork was appleworks and had a database utility, when you were the only one who had a mac, when you were happy with your g3 and jealous of every g4, when you used gopher on the internet, when you had to enter startup commands, when floppy disks were floppy, when the only reason you used a pc was to play oregon trail and minesweeper, when macaddict cd's used to have guided tours-and staff videos, when you weren't a conformist but a trend setter.
drop me a line;
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Roberto Baldwin
August 27, 2009 at 2:16pm
This article is sandwiched between two articles about Snow Leopard. Don't worry we have a ton of Snow Leopard stuff coming your way.
the_saltminer
August 27, 2009 at 1:56pm
Snow Leopard is coming tomorrow, and this is what you have? Seems like every other major tech site has inside looks at Snow Leopard already. Guess I'll go visit MacInTouch.
