{"id":5763,"date":"2009-01-24T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=5763"},"modified":"2019-12-23T13:41:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T21:41:33","slug":"happy-25th-birthday-macintosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/01\/24\/happy-25th-birthday-macintosh\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 25th Birthday Macintosh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:4557,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.lowendmac.com\\\/compact\\\/original-macintosh-128k.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.lowendmac.com\\\/compact\\\/original-macintosh-128k.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4558,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/mac&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260307042726\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/mac\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-07 10:43:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 04:33:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 09:06:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 09:06:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Twenty-five years ago today, Steve Jobs introduced the original Macintosh: &#8220;The computer for the rest of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4KkENSYkMgs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x3a3a3a&#038;color2=0x999999\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4KkENSYkMgs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x3a3a3a&#038;color2=0x999999\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny to see just how much <em>hasn&#8217;t<\/em> changed in the past 25 years &#8212; especially Jobs&#8217; consummate showmanship and flair &#8212; and how much has. That <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowendmac.com\/compact\/original-macintosh-128k.html\" title=\"Low End Mac: Original Macintosh 128k\">little machine that started it all<\/a> is certainly a far cry from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/mac\/\" title=\"Apple - Mac\">what&#8217;s being offered today<\/a>, but it&#8217;s very easy to see how much today&#8217;s Mac still owes to the original, in everything from the interface to the advertising (I was really amused at how similar the two ads at the very end of the above clip are to many of today&#8217;s ads from Apple).<\/p>\n<p>So happy birthday, Macintosh! And here&#8217;s to another 25 years to come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-five years ago today, Steve Jobs introduced the original Macintosh: &#8216;The computer for the rest of us.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039],"tags":[118,356,65,234],"class_list":["post-5763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","tag-apple","tag-steve-jobs","tag-technology","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}