Friday, January 23, 2004
16 Year User Here
Wow, I knew I got in fairly early, but I got my first Mac just four years after they were introduced (though I used them for three years before that, but it took my senior thesis to convince my Dad to buy me one from the Mac store right on campus -- and I didn't even finish my thesis on time!).
"(CNN) --Its dedicated users are so passionate they're often described as religious about their love for the machine.
Twenty years ago, on January 24, 1984, Apple Computer launched the Macintosh. It contained virtually unknown features, including simple icons, and an odd little attachment called a mouse.
Many newspaper stories at the time had to include a definition. Silicon Valley's newspaper The San Jose (California) Mercury News, for example, described the mouse as 'a handheld device that, when slid across a table top, moves the cursor on the Mac's screen.'"
Wow, I knew I got in fairly early, but I got my first Mac just four years after they were introduced (though I used them for three years before that, but it took my senior thesis to convince my Dad to buy me one from the Mac store right on campus -- and I didn't even finish my thesis on time!).
"(CNN) --Its dedicated users are so passionate they're often described as religious about their love for the machine.
Twenty years ago, on January 24, 1984, Apple Computer launched the Macintosh. It contained virtually unknown features, including simple icons, and an odd little attachment called a mouse.
Many newspaper stories at the time had to include a definition. Silicon Valley's newspaper The San Jose (California) Mercury News, for example, described the mouse as 'a handheld device that, when slid across a table top, moves the cursor on the Mac's screen.'"
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