Exactly 10 years ago, on August 15, 1998 Apple released their first iMac. A beautiful all-in-one green Mac. It didn't have a floppy drive, which was shocking at that time and it had 2 USB ports. Many people knew that this was a big step forward and that Apple was moving in the right direction with Steve Jobs on board. How many of us thought about buying Apple stocks then?
Watch a video of this defining moment in tech history when
Steve showed an iMac to the world - the most important Apple presentation since
releasing the first Mac in 1984.
There is also
an amazing iMac advert called "3 steps" and a photo gallery prepared by Wired called '
10 Years of Cuddly, Friendly iMacs'.
BTW which iMac is your favourite? Let me know in comments below.
In one of the latest posts I wrote about
Firefox 3 aiming to set a world record during download day. As a launch date for the new internet browser is today, ZDNET has already reported rought start in
Firefox 3 download fiesta: Ready, set, kaboom. It is not a surprise as shortly after 10 a.m. PDT (Mozilla's official launch time) they reached 14,000 downloads per minute! A few hours later situation got stable as I managed to download my own version of Firefox 3.
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Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is starting on 9th June 2008 and will last for four days. The eyes of the whole tech world will be focused on what will be happening there. The most obvious prediction is a long anticipated 3G iPhone. But instead of looking in the future, it is worth to recall some of the photos and videos from previous WWD Conferences.
WWDC 2007
This conference last year was an amazing event where we could see an OS X Leopard in action and learn more about
developing apps for an iPhone. There are some
amazing photos on Engadet and in the meantime you can watch a hilarious introduction by a PC guy -
WWDC 2007 Opening - PC Guy is Steve Jobs and a
Demo of Core Animation in OS X.
WWDC 2006
Engadget has another fantastic photo cover from the conference that took place in 2008. Similar to 2007, there was
a funny message from a PC guy in the first minutes. The event gathered 4200 people.
WWDC 2005
It was a defining moment in Apple's history when Steve Jobs announced a
switch from IBM PowerPC processors to Intel CPUs. Because of this strategic decision, today we can run Windows on Macs using Bootcamp and MacBook Pro is claimed to be one of the fastest notebooks running Windows Vista.
As I mentioned in the beginning - no rumours and predictions here. It is like opening presents before Christmas. Similar happened before the last keynote in Jan 2008 when we already knew about MacBook Air. What a shame!
Enjoy WWDC08!
