Thirty Years On

Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the Superbowl commercial from Apple that announced its new "Macintosh" computer. Yes, the Superbowl used to be played in January. The commercial was the unofficial start of the "commercial wars," or using supposedly extra creativity in producing ads for the big game's extra visibility. There's not always a whole lot of evidence that this actually happens.

Anyway, over at Wired, you can observe a photo gallery of Mac's growth and changes over the 30 years. It's a little light on photos of some of Macs actual machines, especially leaving out some of the missteps the company made --  one of which, the Performa 5200, I owned and struggled with using through most of grad school and which some Mac enthusiasts consider the worst Mac ever. I should, of course, have known it would be such, since it was basically a beige plastic box. Oh well.