You’re ten years old today, and you’ve come a long way.
You started as Bondi Blue running on a 233 MHz PowerPC G3 with Mac OS 8.1 and a hockey puck mouse and in ten years, we’ve seen you evolve from a teardrop-shaped all-in-one, to a Lampshade, and then morph in a flat panel display.
Beautiful.
You’re still sitting on my study table, and I still can’t bear to sell you after serving me well for so many years.
In your ten years, you have achieved many things. You put Apple back on the computing map when Steve unveiled you to the world. We’ve seen you appear in countless movies and TV shows simply because you were so aesthetically pleasing. You changed the way other PC makers (copiers) think about their ugly beige boxes. You popularized USB in a way that had hardware makers producing peripherals to match your colors. You showed how bold it was to rid the world of Floppy disks. You were the first Apple product to upgrade to an Intel chip.
Here’s a gallery in Wired as a little tribute to you. And here’s to another great ten years to come.
Happy birthday iMac. The world would have been a little duller with you.
