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Ben Cahan wishes he hadn’t damaged his old snapshot of a person in a prosthetic alien suit sitting with his Macintosh. Luckily, he still has a late-1980s picture of actor Kurt Russell with his boxy Mac desktop.

It has been 25 years since the original Macintosh was introduced. The Ars staff looks back at our favorite Macs and Mac moments in honor of the iconic personal computer.

At a time when computers were more like glorified typewriters, Apple introduced the Macintosh – and changed how people interacted with them. In exclusive interviews, Steve Wozniak, Apple’s co-founder, and Andy Hertzfeld, one of the developers, recall how it happened.

Is the White House more of a museum than a working office? Does it even have WiFi? MSNBC has reported that on their first day on the job, Obama’s White House staffers suffered from downgrades on every front. During the campaign and the transition, Obama’s team was a Mac shop; they arrived in the White House to find six-year-old Windows PCs and ….

Twenty-five years ago, the landmark commercial paved the way for big-budget television advertisements and brought Apple into the mainstream.

bradgoodman writes to tell us that tomorrow will mark the 25th anniversary of the first Macintosh, debuting just 2 days after the famous Super Bowl XVIII commercial. “‘The Macintosh demonstrated that it was possible and profitable to create a machine to be used by millions and millions of people,’ said Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, research director for the Institute for the Future, a Palo Alto, California, think tank, and chief force behind ‘Making the Macintosh: Technology and Culture in Silicon Valley,’ an online historical exhibit. ‘The gold standard now for personal electronics is, “Is it easy enough for my grandmother to use it?” People on the Macintosh project were the first people to talk about a product in that way.'”

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