jarrod
jarrod

🔗 Macintosh 40th anniversary: Remembering my own love affair with the original Mac — 9to5mac.com // Ben Lovejoy

It smiled at you as it started-up. You didn’t have directory listings, you had images of folders. You didn’t type the name of an application or file to open it, you used this strange new thing called a mouse to double-click it. When you made a word bold, it appeared in bold on the screen. You had different typefaces! It could talk to you! […]

I immediately knew this was what computers were supposed to be like. I wanted one.

Oh the delight in going from command line to GUI!

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amerpie
amerpie

@jarrod After 30 years of owning a computer and at the end of a career deeply involved in technology, I still look forward to sitting with my Mac and discovering the cool things it can do. I hope I never lose that feeling.

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jarrod
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@amerpie That’s awesome 🧡

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