Can you imagine a world where people were actually excited to see letters move across a screen or images appear on it? How the world has changed since 1984!
The excitement was a computer that out of the box actually had a use. Every PC fired up to a blinking cursor. Without buying software it was useless. It was the first Graphical User Interface. Way beyond MicroSoft. And being within one box with one mouse and keyboard it was, in its time, as revolutionary as the iPod, iPhone, and iPad. Though not battery powered you could easily move it. PC's were one pile of wires and boxes. Apple, unlike now, moved the world onwards with each new product. It's only mistakes were in the period of Job's absence. An amazing record of what 33 years of focus can do.
This little upright box of tricks was an amazing effort. I preferred the Commodore Amiga 1000 when it arrived 18 months later - the Amiga looked like a more modern incarnation of the classic Commodore PET from 1977. I still have a Macintosh Performa 200 in the man cave from around 1992 - so this Macintosh enjoyed a long run in computing terms!
Machine SPEAKS. Crowd enters state of mass hysteria and experiences multiple collective orgasms. There is something very American about this, dare I say? 🙏🏻
Happy 40th Birthday Macintosh. The computer for the rest of us! And RIP Steve, I miss your passion and charisma at Apple events. What a special moment in modern history.
It's only been 40 years Wow how fast and far we've come technology is exploding, I'm in my 70s and I glad I won't be around in 30 years to see Ameca and her cohorts take over 😮
The irony is that the "computer for the rest of us!" is far more complicated to use than a simple microsoft windows 95 machine. I don't think Steve is dead, I think Steve simply vanished for a little while.
@@Selderan I've been using a personal computer since the early '80s. I've used Windows, DOS, MacOS, Linux, UNIX, and others. And I really don't know what you mean. MacOS is almost totally just Point-and-Click for 99% of anything you might want to do. I'm not sure how much more simple it could be.
Hi I am 61 right now but I am proud to say that I was present there and excited as hell, those were my college days and till now everything has changed dramatically. Edit:- Yes! I am an Indian and I was present there, what is so unbelievable in this. btw thanks for all your greetings, This means a lot to me.
It must've been amazing to be in that room looking at a major revolution. I wasn't alive until some time later and it's amazing how much technology has changed.
Vangelis did a great job making this song. Aka the intro music to the "Chariots of fire" movie. and I think this song was a good choice for promoting this product :)
This gives me chills, when the computer finishes talking and everyone cheers and Steve just stands there super proud of what he has done, amazing moment
I dont know if this is a joke lol but Steve Jobs didn’t do anything he was the guy who did the speeches, his waznatch of however you spell His last name and other people did it for him. He didn’t even write any code of circuit design I believe. I might be wrong but this is what Steve Jobs (2015) told us. Unfortunately he was also an asshole according to that movie too!
moddingdudes it was his vision he built the team and company we all know he doesnt sit in front if a comp and write code does mark cuban play basketball?
I remember in the early 1980's an Apple salesmen came to our company to demonstrate the Lisa computer. After several minutes of demoing the Lisa he said, "have you noticed I have shown you this software without touching the keyboard once?". It was very impressive, but also very expensive. Then a few years later they released the Mac, and the Lisa was history.
I wonder how many of this younger generation actually understand what a BIG deal this was in 1984! Nineteen EIGHTY-four...not ‘94...EIGHTY-four. This was science fiction come to life. This was unheard of. Only a fantasy until...it wasn’t. Epic historical moment!
I just found this video, and I already noticed a couple of comments comparing this to what we have now. Yet I am able to keep perspective in mind, so I can imagine how amazing it must've been at the time. Sure I wasn't born until ten years later, but I've long had a fascination with retro tech so I was genuinely intrigued by this video. It's probably one of the most beautiful things I have seen to date. And extra points for playing the "Chariots of Fire" theme in the background. That was fucking epic! 😁
@@astrodome1994 Funnily enough technology with computers now has not fundamentally changed since then. The desktop environments are similar, programs can do similar rendering and are built upon the same elements. The only thing that has changed is the power and efficiency, an average person will be able to use that old mac because it is so similar in basics to the new macs we have now.
You are completely right, I can’t comprehend what all the fuss is about. Sure, I understand that this technology was never seen before. But it’s so ordinary now, everything that it could do. Crazy
@Lord Shrenny Computers are computers, the are in a single area which in itself has stayed true to the fundamentals. Looking at a computer you know its a computer and you know how to use it even if its one like this. You cannot compare a car to a simple light blink circuit
People today can't appreciate what Steve Jobs presented on that day. We now take such things for granted. When I first heard about this Macintosh thingy I'd grown up working with command line computer interfaces such as DOS. I couldn't believe what people were telling me until I saw this computer for myself. Over the years Steve Jobs went on to present even more amazing stuff like that, for instance smartphones, a technical miracle at the time and for me still is. Rest in peace, Steve, we all miss you. BTW, I'm not an Apple fanboy, I own a Windows laptop and a Google Pixel mobile. But I know that these gadgets wouldn't exist without Steve Jobs.
At 32 years old and born in 1991, I come here today on the 40th anniversary of this historic event and I promise you, I for one can. There were many personal computers coming out around this time, some of them better by hardware (the Amiga, for example), some of them more affordable and better-selling (the Commodore 64), but absolutely none of them presented such a perfectly balanced blend of capability, usability and affordability. A monochrome display wasn't particularly wonderful by 1984 standards any more; hell, even the C64 did 16 colors instead of just two. But the _content_ displayed on this screen, the absolute density and variety of things shown in this demo, the implications of _what such a tiny box could deliver_ were absolutely earth-shattering. The audience for this demo had every reason to go wild, because in these few brief minutes, they could see that what was once considered "the future" had finally become "now." I'm not an Apple fan either, honestly can't stand anything they've done since the late 2000s; but this, right here, was a special moment in history.
@@AdamNovagen I appreciate your enthusiasm. I was already a seasoned computer user in 1984 so I daresay I can tell you a few things here. The presentation of the Macintosh in 1984 was nothing to go wild about. Already the Lisa could do more than the Macintosh. The Amiga and Atari were also just as able, had been on the market already a year earlier and had a larger collection of software to choose from. And all these systems had larger displays. Many even complained about the Mac's postage stamp sized display. Wild enthusiasm for the new Macintosh was therefor unwarranted and had more to do with Apple's clever marketing campaign than with the introduction of a rather mediocre and far too expensive personal computer.
Same here and I own a Windows computer and a Google pixel 7 pro. But I still think that Apple has really paved the way for a lot of the way we see electronics today. I've owned Apple products in the past and even though I much prefer the ability to have more granular control over customization, I can't lie when I say that the overall user interface and way that Apple products works is simple and seamless. It's just a great experience. But I like to tinker and I like to be able to controlled tiny little aspects of my devices so I have stuck with Windows and Android. But More recently I have considered getting a Mac just to have the best of both worlds.
Of course they would exist as a matter of fact SJ took them from what was invented already by smarter people than him and put them together in a commercial way to appeal part of the mass public. Kind of what Elon Musk does today.
well he did work on it for many years after he got booted from the Lisa project literally named after let's face it, his own daughter R.I.P. Steve We still love our Macs
I remember my first encounter with a Mac in 1988 or so. I’d never seen anything like it, but 20 minutes later I was printing a beautiful letter and drawing stuff. It was revolutionary.
I bought a Mac Plus, Rodime 30 mb external hard drive and Image Writer printer…put it all on Apple Credit…about $4.5 k…. I wouldn’t be surprised if i wasn’t still making payments on it !!! 🥴
That's about when I first used a Mac too. It was in a college computer lab, and I only used it because my friend needed my paper given to him on a disc. I didn't know shit about it, because the last computer I used were Trash 80s and Commodores in high school. Hell most of the time I wrote my papers on a MANUAL typewriter at home.
All home computers these days were "booting" faster as actually they didn't have dynamic operation systems on hard drive. Or in most cases - no hard drives at all - you were loading software from floppies. And OS was placed in ROM memory, so it was starting immediately.
That's because there's almost NOTHING to boot up in this thing. My God, are you people actually implying this old-ass mac is better than your PC? Get real, kids. Can you play GTA-5 on this thing? Oh I thought not . . .
@Mike Yeah, but considering to how much faster the hardware is today, it has LESS to do than this Mac. Code was much more efficient back in the day because it HAD to be. Today, the whole codebase is a mess because the hardware is so fast, nobody will bother to fix it.
It’s awesome to see Steve’s face as he presents this. He and the Mac team knew they had something amazing. He and his gang of pirates really made history, and after hearing that crowd’s reaction, you can’t help but smile too.
@@n6cid Actually Jef Raskin named the Macintosh. The Macintosh was started shortly after the Lisa project (named after Steve's daughter who he sorta refused to be the father of). The Macintosh was a less powerful device than the Lisa but was revolutionary due to the software Steve had the software team develop for it. At one point when becoming the head of the Macintosh team, Jobs tried to rename it the "Bicycle", but everyone on the team hated it and refused to use the name, so it was kept as the Mac we know today.
@@Mr.Fishward That's cool, Steve was different back in those days. To be honest he was a real drunk and treated people very badly. It's no wonder his liver gave out on him at such a young age.
You think prisoners are living on another planet and not aware of whats going on Earth. I tell you what, some prisoners are even better equipped technically than free civillians. Today it is not like several centuries ago. And prisoners are not informationally isolated.
mandy911 And Regan was the best president in history. A man that removed the iron clad choker placed around America, deregulated her, and allowed her to citizens and businesses to be free and innovate. There is a reason 49 out of 50 states reelected Regan in 1984. We all loved Regan for breaking the chains. Allowed for massive change. People responded by changing the world.
The parties that were held in the 80’s beat anything I’ve seen since. My parents era rocked. That level of excess probably hadn’t been seen since the 1920’s in the USA.
@@jimmorrison4163 Funny how a lot of people support anti-immigration policies and at the same time praise Reagan. If it wasn't for Reagan's war on drugs bs, immigration or drugs or crime wouldn't be a problem. Not to mention of course, the 20 Trillion dollar debt that the U.S is currently in. Of which nearly half is owed to China.
With the exception of color TV; FM stereo radio; a pocket calculator; the 45 rpm/33 LP records/cassette tapes; along with the transistor radio, technology from the 1940s to the '70s for the average consumer really didn't progress all that far. But, from the late 1970s to present day, the technological leaps have been astounding. A person taking a time leap from the 1940s to 30 years in the future could still function well with handling the 1970s technology. But a person from the 1970s to jump to the present? It would be a struggle. Something as simple as a cordless phone they wouldn't know how to answer it.
@@Dreezel reason I say that is because I'm only 32 years old, my life hasn't been that long. Now 37 years might sound and feel like a long time to an older gentleman but for me it isn't that long.
I was an ad agency production manager from 1960s to 2010s. The release of the Macintosh in 1984 was a total game changer. No more physical cut and paste of text matter with photo prints to create an advert. Adverts became completely made/produced via the Mac. Macs were the platform of choice because operating them was so much more intuitive, easier and quicker than trying to do the same work on a Windows platform. Back then design and production software was mainly made for use only on Macs. Only in recent years have many softwares been built for Windows PC as well. Today most ad agencies, design and creative businesses in Australia use Macs in preference to a Windows PC. Thank heavens Apple and Steve Jobs came along when they did. Creatives never had it so good.
I worked in a small design studio in the 90's and the old hand that owned the place would do an edit to a brochure, save and close it and then would shake his head and say "that would have taken me 2 hours just a few years ago."
Apple did great things in the 1980's but it was really Microsoft all along pushing the Software on the hardware in the mid 1990's with gaming and 3d graphics software that was only once possible on SGI workstations. Apple's answer to SGI was foolish with the Next nonsense, it was a complete failure. Windows NT was the final nail in the coffin for SGI and Irix as Direct 3D/ Open GL was on the horizon. Open GL was not even supported on Mac OS for many years and this was needed for 3D software packages like Maya, Softimage and other in house suites. I believe that Microsoft buying Softimage and porting it to Windows NT away from SGI on Irix really started the Modern Graphics software race. Both Apple and Microsoft are guilty of stagnating the modern computer with the current technology we are really starting to slow down on development of a new way of computing. It seems like the tech is already here but the major companies do not want it to be released as they still have billions invested in old tech to dump on the mass consumers. Computer processors have become a joke, system memory is a joke, the Modern OS's are a joke compared to the 1980's, there is no more efficiency over looks. Look at old Apple products they were different and made a big impact, in 2024 Apple is basically a cell phone manufacturer.
Arthas Menethil It's one of the most important moments in computing history. Without this computer it is possible we could still all be using text based systems. Apple took the concept of a GUI and made it available to the masses and it changed home computing forever as it made computers easier to use in an era where command lines were the norm.
this is the comment i said "no its not" to. "It doesn't matter if you prefer Windows, Mac or Linux. If you like home computers, this is probably one of the most important moments of all time". now take your take to read that shit and take it in.
I was 17 in 1984 which was the first time I used a computer on a training course known as the YTS in those days. It is incredible to see how much technology has advanced in 37 years.
I don't use Apple's products. I prefer Windows and Android, but the significance of this unveiling as well as the iPhone's cannot be overstated. So cool to see it for the first time here in 2018. The 80's were a magical time.
Yeah lots of poor people can’t afford the good stuff, but that’s OK, it’s people like me that make sure peasants like you eventually can afford the ripped off stuff.
@@elfinstuff8934 Early adopters and people who buy high end products bankroll these products being built, which then are stolen and ripped off by Asian countries which then in turn sell them to welfare trash like yourself who couldn't afford it before. But you don't have to be a piece of garbage, you could just get a good job, work hard and support people who create things rather than just support people who steal things. But that's a lot of work for people of lower stock.
Rod Munch Steve Job’s was the unofficial innovative leader of every company that competed against Apple. Watch, we’re going to be playing with tablets for another 20 years because that’s where the well dried up.
@@jb6425 Well I wouldn't go that far, but Jobs was very very good at instinctively knowing what works and what doesn't, and he was a stickler for making items that would push technology but also be easy enough to use for the mass market. It's not so much what Jobs personally did, he was just great at being an a-hole and rejecting stuff if he didn't deem it perfect, and since he's been gone too many products are brought to market that are pretty good, but not insanely great. A perfect fit for Apple is Elon Musk, he's a guy that seems to have that same type of drive and instinctive ability to make items that people want - while also pushing the envelope. Apple should buy Telsa and make Musk their CEO, that I think would push Apple again to innovate rather than just refine items like they do under Cook, who is clearly just a penny pincher and has zero vision.
That's Steve Jobes. I cried with happiness watching this video. I thank the universe that sent you to this world that you animate and inspire the soul in machines. Time has no power over us, you will always remain in my heart. And I feel the same as you at this moment!
This was amazing when it happened. I was only 9 years old! I am almost 48 today. Steve Jobs was truly a pioneer and he left behind life changing devices that we take for granted today. He has left as much of an impact on human life as Newton, Gutenberg, Edison, the Wright Bros, and Ford.
Well naturally, but Jobs has just the right charisma to pull the show off. Just because it's obviously a performance of sorts, that doesn't mean it's easy to pull off.
It was his drive that change the cinematic world with his joining Pixar. It was his drive that pushed for a user friendly OS (though taken from Xerox) and an all in one personal computer. It was his drive that pushed for the simplication of the MP3 player and later the smartphone. It's easy to sit back and wallow in your own ignorance, but those of us in the tech community bore witness to the progress of technology, and Steve Jobs was at the forefront of bringing a lot of innovation to the consumer.
Good thing too because the desing of everything was getting boring. I mean, I look at how things are desinged today and think "Steve Jobs needs to redesing that."
That's how it went. Before he went to High School, Steve would put on his dad's business suit and practice just like he was up on a stage. All they had was a bowling ball and a VCR. That was before he met and befriended Issey Miyake, and then everything changed. From then on, Steve was a new man and no one ever mocked him again.
+Cenric He actually didn't invent that much, he found a way to implement different kinds of technology in a way that would benefit the end user so much that it kinda became the standard we know today. That, by its self, is very creative but not inventing. It is kinda like painting a nice scenery, it is there and you didn't invent the canvas, the paint, the brushes or the scenery but you still manage to make something stunning from it. Look it up, most things that apple is known for introducing has been around before.
+Bas van der Meij (Ykai63) Then what's your definition of inventing? Literally everything that has ever been "invented" has simply been putting things together.
mhillsman An invention is creating something new, that hasn't been seen before like when the computer mouse was invented, it was way before apple brought it to market but apple made it popular. The same goes for the iphone, they didn't invent much of the technologies but brought them to the consumer market in a desirable way so they made those technologies popular as well.
In general there was more excitement for things back then. I remember audiences in movie theaters cheering wildly for trailers for the next Rocky, Raiders, Star Wars or whatever summer blockbuster; now you can hear a pin drop. There was also high anticipation for the next big album and a mad rush for tickets for the upcoming tour that always reached a fever-pitch. There was even excitement for new car models. Everyone couldn't wait to see the newly restyled 1984 Corvette. Owners couldn't drive anywhere without getting stopped like they were celebrities and getting a ride in one was a thrill!
Its all been ruined because of instant gratification. Something this generation will never understand, having to wait for things. Now things happen so fast you can't get anyone to be excited anymore.
In the 2010s we entered mega sensory overload. We've bypassed pleasurable excitement for the things you mentioned, and replaced it with mad-addiction to our smartphones (understandably so).
I still have one of the original Mac Plus' with all the peripherals as well. It launched a whole new career for me. I then bought one for my son, and it launched a career in Macintosh Computer Forensics for him. It truly was a ground breaker!
THIS GUY NEEDS 500 SUBSCRIBERS What a time to be watching this, given that our AI overlords are probably going to enslave us next month given 2020’s track record so far.
Clutch Racing - Forza, Project Cars 2 & MORE It was all about fitting back then. The machine fits inside the bag and disk inside the pocket.... cool indeed!!
@@nounix That's true, Vangelis won an award for that score. Really, Vangelis is a visionary much like Steve Jobs. I don't think he could have picked better music.
Watching this on (as of this year 2021) on latest model Macbook Pro. It's insane how far these machines have come. I used to love drawing on the original Mac's paintbrush program. Back then that was an incredible tool to me. I was 9 years old.
Mark Hoffman But he wasn’t so healthy. Steve Jobs had a poor diet (although he loved apples). I guess he was only good at running a technology company.
OMG... I smiled now for 1984... Steve Jobs takes my breath away and inspires me. Every book ever written dedicated to him, mesmerises me, every moment.. Truly a legend..My salute to Steve Jobs....
@YUKAJO Microsoft didnt copy though. I think Bill Gates wrote an article 1 year after the first computer was made which was Altair 8800 computer (technically it wasnt very user friendly but it was that computer that aspired interest to make computers). So this back then caught interest to alot of computer people. But sucks that Steve is dead. As much of a non fan i am of Apple. it was fun having him here as a competition.
@@kejiri3593 and where is ibm today? Does it even exist anymore? I’m too lazy to check. Meanwhile MacBooks are sold everywhere and are the gold standard in computing.
Handsome or not, he was still a Class A jerk. You would think with all the money he had he would have been a nicer person. People that knew him said he was a real pos.
Steve had at least 10 Million by this time. You replied "because money makes you nicer ?" Your comment makes no sense. I was commenting that Steve was a real jerk and pos. When Steve had 200 million he was still a world class jerk pos. So money certainly did not make him nicer.
@@anggupta461 People write their thesis during the last year of graduate school. Assuming he graduated High School at 18, add 3 more years for undergrad, and 2 years for graduate. That means he was around 23 at 1988. Therefore, he should be around 56 now. This is assuming he wrote his masters thesis and not his PhD thesis. If he wrote his PhD thesis then add 4 more years making him around 60.
Couple of things here.........One, take a minute to be amazed at what computers have become, and what they can do.......Sometimes we get so used to something we forget how "insanely great" it is..........Secondly, just finished Isaacson's Jobs biography.............It's terrific, highly recommended.
Hi Nawaf Abu-Ghaz I saw your post are the good old days remember when the commadore computer used to be around with a floppy disc and or a cassette tape set up I do those were the good Old days
I was one of the early 128K Mac buyers. I balked at paying $60 for some cable, I think it was a printer cable but eventually discovered an Atari game machine cable had exactly the same pinout, it sold for something like $5.99. It was a great dream and a good lesson for me to avoid ever getting fooled again by hype. I sold it some months later, happy to get $900 for what was essentially a worthless toy.
This was basically a vision of the future. If Apple does AR right it will be this moment again. There were plenty of PCs on the market at this point. But this was something different.
This was really fabulous. The man who started it all, and changed the world in the process, with a little box of magic. You rocked the world, Steve Jobs!
This occurred 31 years ago and I get chills and teary eyed seeing the smooth text roll across the screen. I started with a Sinclair ZX-81 in 1981 or so...8k memory with 8k expansion using a b&w tv and audio tape recorder to save/load programs. I was 10. In 1988 - three days after graduating high school I landed a on the job training Computer Operator job at a database management company. If you didn't live through these times...if you didn't experience this from the get go...you will probably never understand. This video ranks in my book as one of the most inspiring moments in the realm of personal computer history. Steve Jobs later said of this moment - outside of the birth of his children - this was his proudest moment ever. RIP Steve - Apple forever changed my life and landed me in a career which I enjoy with passion to this day. Think Different. RIP Steve.
Dubsy 102 PCs that time cost $2500-$4000 The Mac was originally priced at $1000 but the board disagreed with Steve Jobs and agreed to the suggestion of $2495 by Apple CEO, John Sculley
That thing about price is utterly misleading. The Mac was intended as a budget computer (by Apple standards anyway), but when Steve Jobs got his hands on it, he added features to the point it cost far more, hence the final price. Now, you are also being misleading when you say 'PC's at the time cost $2500-$000'. Firstly, IBM PCs at the time did cost that much NEW, but by now the IBM PC AT was out, so you could find an original PC for $1500 or so second hand, and it was only 3 years old. The IBMs had so many features the Mac didn't. Colour, for instance. Also, you could upgrade them to the point that you could get processors as good as the 486 on the AT, keeping it relevant for a decade. They also had hard drives, another thing omitted by Macs. The 8!! expansion slots made them excellent for companies who needed to do anything specialised, for example there were fax cards available. Again, none of this was on Mac. Mac's had horrible design capability (no colour), horrible sound (literal beeps, PC could hook into MIDI and use sound cards), and no upgradability. PCs of the time could do 640KB of RAM, and later much higher, the Mac had 128KB. Result: PC ATs, released the same year, were better in every aspect and could run OSs up to Windows 95, whilst the Mac was obsolete in 5 years and only useful for the simplest of business tasks. In home use, neither were any good. Macs had basically no games and PCs were expensive, but the PC was still far better as it did actually have games. No, what you might want is something like the Amiga or Atari ST, which had literally identical processors to the Mac, with the same or more RAM, just as much expandability (N/A), and the holy grail, COLOUR. OR, you could by a commodore 64 for about $300 (always falling to), pr maybe in the UK a ZX Spectrum for £125, and all of these managed colour, decent processors, and only half of the RAM. WOW, aren't Macs amazing, barely beating 3 year old budget home computers!
Can you imagine a world where people were actually excited to see letters move across a screen or images appear on it? How the world has changed since 1984!
Today, it's like someone tells you that we've built a fully functional Jarvis with a fully functioning Iron man suit
The excitement was a computer that out of the box actually had a use. Every PC fired up to a blinking cursor. Without buying software it was useless. It was the first Graphical User Interface. Way beyond MicroSoft. And being within one box with one mouse and keyboard it was, in its time, as revolutionary as the iPod, iPhone, and iPad. Though not battery powered you could easily move it. PC's were one pile of wires and boxes. Apple, unlike now, moved the world onwards with each new product. It's only mistakes were in the period of Job's absence. An amazing record of what 33 years of focus can do.
Brynley Talbot - Well said!
Were you in the 80s or the 90s when you saw computers first came out
This little upright box of tricks was an amazing effort. I preferred the Commodore Amiga 1000 when it arrived 18 months later - the Amiga looked like a more modern incarnation of the classic Commodore PET from 1977. I still have a Macintosh Performa 200 in the man cave from around 1992 - so this Macintosh enjoyed a long run in computing terms!
The room was dark since there were no Windows
Underrated
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Haha that's deep mate
ahahahaha
Oh, very good.
When he made the macintosh talk, the crowd was so crazy even I smiled.
Exact same feeling
It's so wholesome
You: A kid with good grammar.
Me:A kid with good grammar.
Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary!
Machine SPEAKS. Crowd enters state of mass hysteria and experiences multiple collective orgasms. There is something very American about this, dare I say? 🙏🏻
Yeah but he faked it. The voice wasn't working at the time of the presentation.
Happy 40th Birthday Macintosh. The computer for the rest of us!
And RIP Steve, I miss your passion and charisma at Apple events. What a special moment in modern history.
It's only been 40 years Wow how fast and far we've come technology is exploding, I'm in my 70s and I glad I won't be around in 30 years to see Ameca and her cohorts take over 😮
If it wasn't for this master piece, we wouldn't be typing in this comment here, watching this on a palm sized device
I guess it's one way to admit you are stupid.
The irony is that the "computer for the rest of us!" is far more complicated to use than a simple microsoft windows 95 machine.
I don't think Steve is dead, I think Steve simply vanished for a little while.
@@Selderan I've been using a personal computer since the early '80s. I've used Windows, DOS, MacOS, Linux, UNIX, and others.
And I really don't know what you mean. MacOS is almost totally just Point-and-Click for 99% of anything you might want to do. I'm not sure how much more simple it could be.
That's the face of someone who is really proud of his product and really loves what he does. Amazing footage
Yamil Marques de Mello The look on his face was priceless
Such a pity that we have to see his baby, his life work, ruined by Tim Cook.
RobloxerMartin are 10 year olds even able to buy iPhones?
Ikimashou well don't view it like that
if not for tim cook, apple would've never gotten 1 trillion dollars
@@Turkuaz002 same videos dude, what are you doing?
"Only a few people have seen it"
11 years later: 8.8 M views
Yeah 8.8million is actually only a few considering the other 7billions peeps out there
@@josegabriel4133 8 Billion almost
@@فريققناهكصمعلاك أسم قناتك غريب like wtf ؟
@@KAI-bm6lq معاك مشكله؟
@@فريققناهكصمعلاك yea
Hi I am 61 right now but I am proud to say that I was present there and excited as hell, those were my college days and till now everything has changed dramatically.
Edit:- Yes! I am an Indian and I was present there, what is so unbelievable in this. btw thanks for all your greetings, This means a lot to me.
@@Pablo14200 you'll be old one day if you're lucky punk
It must've been amazing to be in that room looking at a major revolution. I wasn't alive until some time later and it's amazing how much technology has changed.
@@Pablo14200 that mouth can get you killed son
@@Pablo14200 your just talking shit because you just want attention go to sleep kid
Pablito deleted his comment. What did he say??
To be honest, this video brought tears to my eyes ... What an era it was.
same
Vangelis did a great job making this song. Aka the intro music to the "Chariots of fire" movie.
and I think this song was a good choice for promoting this product :)
Yea me too
This is perfect music for the occasion❤
exactly i have same feelings when i came to watch this video after reading steve jobs biography
So, that's what Siri's Grandpa sounds like..
😂😂😂
Lol
Lmao you made my day pal
i had to hit the like button, you made me smile
😂
Let's be honest...This footage has a better quality than some recent paranormal activity videos on TH-cam😂
🤣 True, some how they are always on 480p.
yea 😁❤️
Or some cctv footage
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It has better quality then Pewd's camera 🤣
This gives me chills, when the computer finishes talking and everyone cheers and Steve just stands there super proud of what he has done, amazing moment
I wish I had his brain
I just wish that I could have witnessed this man's transformation myself
@@anosjc i wish i had his suit and great hair
I dont know if this is a joke lol but Steve Jobs didn’t do anything he was the guy who did the speeches, his waznatch of however you spell
His last name and other people did it for him. He didn’t even write any code of circuit design I believe. I might be wrong but this is what Steve Jobs (2015) told us. Unfortunately he was also an asshole according to that movie too!
moddingdudes it was his vision he built the team and company we all know he doesnt sit in front if a comp and write code does mark cuban play basketball?
I remember in the early 1980's an Apple salesmen came to our company to demonstrate the Lisa computer. After several minutes of demoing the Lisa he said, "have you noticed I have shown you this software without touching the keyboard once?". It was very impressive, but also very expensive. Then a few years later they released the Mac, and the Lisa was history.
That’s a pretty great way to demo it honestly, nice throwback!
"we're finally here. the future."
-some guy in 1984
hes not wrong doe
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lol
Laugh all you want, but in 47 years people will say the same thing about us mockingly.
Well Apple consumers are sheep so not that different from 1984 book :P
1984: Computer boots up when switched on
2019: Computer updates for 2 hours before boots up
Only if you use Windows
loolllllllllll
Lol 😂😂
Dollicious Customs I’ve never seen that on my MacBook. It’s always very fast
KJER ERRT not a wise move
I wonder how many of this younger generation actually understand what a BIG deal this was in 1984!
Nineteen EIGHTY-four...not ‘94...EIGHTY-four. This was science fiction come to life. This was unheard of. Only a fantasy until...it wasn’t.
Epic historical moment!
watching in 2020, it still give me chills - seeing all those people cheer for that piece of tech
I just found this video, and I already noticed a couple of comments comparing this to what we have now. Yet I am able to keep perspective in mind, so I can imagine how amazing it must've been at the time. Sure I wasn't born until ten years later, but I've long had a fascination with retro tech so I was genuinely intrigued by this video. It's probably one of the most beautiful things I have seen to date.
And extra points for playing the "Chariots of Fire" theme in the background. That was fucking epic! 😁
@@astrodome1994 Funnily enough technology with computers now has not fundamentally changed since then. The desktop environments are similar, programs can do similar rendering and are built upon the same elements. The only thing that has changed is the power and efficiency, an average person will be able to use that old mac because it is so similar in basics to the new macs we have now.
You are completely right, I can’t comprehend what all the fuss is about. Sure, I understand that this technology was never seen before. But it’s so ordinary now, everything that it could do. Crazy
@Lord Shrenny Computers are computers, the are in a single area which in itself has stayed true to the fundamentals. Looking at a computer you know its a computer and you know how to use it even if its one like this. You cannot compare a car to a simple light blink circuit
People today can't appreciate what Steve Jobs presented on that day. We now take such things for granted. When I first heard about this Macintosh thingy I'd grown up working with command line computer interfaces such as DOS. I couldn't believe what people were telling me until I saw this computer for myself.
Over the years Steve Jobs went on to present even more amazing stuff like that, for instance smartphones, a technical miracle at the time and for me still is.
Rest in peace, Steve, we all miss you.
BTW, I'm not an Apple fanboy, I own a Windows laptop and a Google Pixel mobile. But I know that these gadgets wouldn't exist without Steve Jobs.
At 32 years old and born in 1991, I come here today on the 40th anniversary of this historic event and I promise you, I for one can. There were many personal computers coming out around this time, some of them better by hardware (the Amiga, for example), some of them more affordable and better-selling (the Commodore 64), but absolutely none of them presented such a perfectly balanced blend of capability, usability and affordability.
A monochrome display wasn't particularly wonderful by 1984 standards any more; hell, even the C64 did 16 colors instead of just two. But the _content_ displayed on this screen, the absolute density and variety of things shown in this demo, the implications of _what such a tiny box could deliver_ were absolutely earth-shattering. The audience for this demo had every reason to go wild, because in these few brief minutes, they could see that what was once considered "the future" had finally become "now."
I'm not an Apple fan either, honestly can't stand anything they've done since the late 2000s; but this, right here, was a special moment in history.
@@AdamNovagen I appreciate your enthusiasm. I was already a seasoned computer user in 1984 so I daresay I can tell you a few things here.
The presentation of the Macintosh in 1984 was nothing to go wild about. Already the Lisa could do more than the Macintosh. The Amiga and Atari were also just as able, had been on the market already a year earlier and had a larger collection of software to choose from. And all these systems had larger displays. Many even complained about the Mac's postage stamp sized display.
Wild enthusiasm for the new Macintosh was therefor unwarranted and had more to do with Apple's clever marketing campaign than with the introduction of a rather mediocre and far too expensive personal computer.
Same here and I own a Windows computer and a Google pixel 7 pro. But I still think that Apple has really paved the way for a lot of the way we see electronics today. I've owned Apple products in the past and even though I much prefer the ability to have more granular control over customization, I can't lie when I say that the overall user interface and way that Apple products works is simple and seamless. It's just a great experience. But I like to tinker and I like to be able to controlled tiny little aspects of my devices so I have stuck with Windows and Android. But More recently I have considered getting a Mac just to have the best of both worlds.
I appreciated it. My first computer was a TI 99 4A with 16K color, fabulous, 1983!
Of course they would exist as a matter of fact SJ took them from what was invented already by smarter people than him and put them together in a commercial way to appeal part of the mass public. Kind of what Elon Musk does today.
This is a guy who truly knows how to promote his products
This man was a pure visionary.striving for perfection everytime💯
Nour Art the genius behind the marketing of Apple Computers Is Regis Mckenna.
Yeah morally a bad human, but an exceptional marketer, buisness guy and innovator!
@@kayaeki He suffered from OCD, he was not a bad human in general.
”get your facts straight buddy.”
Yea basically a glorified salesman. His best works were his ads lmao.
This made me a little emotional thinking how far we've come. RIP.
How are you doing?
U r beautiful
What are you saying miss how far we come my ass
@@ARMOSPHERE she is my girlfriend
And yet to the future.... we today, are primitive.
4:05 he looks so proud and looks like he was trying not to cry. this video is such a wholesome
The lead up to this presentation wasn’t that wholesome
@@CertifiedFresh7 wait what how so??
@@CertifiedFresh7 what happened??
Yoboii Sergio! lol nvm I googled it and it’s just some bs they made up for the movie. He was a dick in the movie when they set up this presentation.
@@CertifiedFresh7 oh, ok
The look of joy in his face almost brought a tear to my eye. Such a beautiful moment!! I can’t wait till I have something similar
I got the tears! I had a Macintosh & later PC Windows. An iPhone is all I need now.
@@sambo5402 Why do you promote chinese products?
He was so proud to hear his friend Stephen Hawking helping him present the Mac.
you can and you will, just continue to follow your heart like I know you already do
4:05 *That smile and being proud ... is priceless*
He was trying not to cry.
So true
Yes; yet you can be part of it with 120 usd/share price as of October 17th, 2020 :)
well he did work on it for many years after he got booted from the Lisa project literally named after let's face it, his own daughter
R.I.P. Steve
We still love our Macs
Yasss
1984 people: hype because of some move texts and audio recording*
2020 people: angry because of auto correct text*
Because its shit and it needs to be turned off
@@IAm-zo1bo *me who always turns it on:*
😂yeah
@@IAm-zo1bo yea! turn it off and shut up!
Go to keyboard settings and turn it off. People are too lazy these days.
1984: wow... omg a talking computer that makes sounds itself.
2019: shut up you fn cell phone, or i will turn you to silent mode.
vision4videoAustria that used to be Sri
Omar Vasquez Sri
Slep_mmx Sri
Omar Vasquez that’s Siri you shit
They had a talking car, they should of called this the knightingtosh
I remember my first encounter with a Mac in 1988 or so. I’d never seen anything like it, but 20 minutes later I was printing a beautiful letter and drawing stuff. It was revolutionary.
I bought a Mac Plus, Rodime 30 mb external hard drive and Image Writer printer…put it all on Apple Credit…about $4.5 k…. I wouldn’t be surprised if i wasn’t still making payments on it !!! 🥴
That's about when I first used a Mac too. It was in a college computer lab, and I only used it because my friend needed my paper given to him on a disc. I didn't know shit about it, because the last computer I used were Trash 80s and Commodores in high school. Hell most of the time I wrote my papers on a MANUAL typewriter at home.
still boots up faster than my pc
Of course
not faster than my Mac though :P
Ever heard of an ssd?
All home computers these days were "booting" faster as actually they didn't have dynamic operation systems on hard drive. Or in most cases - no hard drives at all - you were loading software from floppies. And OS was placed in ROM memory, so it was starting immediately.
operation?
It surprise me how this booted up faster than my windows 10...
128K RAM and 64KB ROM is the answer.
That's because there's almost NOTHING to boot up in this thing. My God, are you people actually implying this old-ass mac is better than your PC? Get real, kids. Can you play GTA-5 on this thing? Oh I thought not . . .
u r a piece. Lol
@Mike Yeah, but considering to how much faster the hardware is today, it has LESS to do than this Mac. Code was much more efficient back in the day because it HAD to be. Today, the whole codebase is a mess because the hardware is so fast, nobody will bother to fix it.
Considering that quite a decent chunk of the system is in the ROM it's not very surprising.
It’s awesome to see Steve’s face as he presents this. He and the Mac team knew they had something amazing. He and his gang of pirates really made history, and after hearing that crowd’s reaction, you can’t help but smile too.
This project was called the "Lisa"....Steve named all project with names...
@@n6cid Actually Jef Raskin named the Macintosh. The Macintosh was started shortly after the Lisa project (named after Steve's daughter who he sorta refused to be the father of). The Macintosh was a less powerful device than the Lisa but was revolutionary due to the software Steve had the software team develop for it. At one point when becoming the head of the Macintosh team, Jobs tried to rename it the "Bicycle", but everyone on the team hated it and refused to use the name, so it was kept as the Mac we know today.
@@Mr.Fishward Did you work at Apple back in the day? I did.
@@n6cid No, I am just passionate about the history of the company. I actually recently got done reading Steve Jobs' biography.
@@Mr.Fishward That's cool, Steve was different back in those days. To be honest he was a real drunk and treated people very badly. It's no wonder his liver gave out on him at such a young age.
"Hello, I'm Macintosh. It sure is great to get out of that bag."
LMAO-
I’m watching this off my iPhone. It’s crazy how much this man literally changed the world
English?!
Alex Norway tf u talking bout
Also the price
@@psykickz9159 maybe he's a Brit
That’s neat. Where can I get one?
Just look at the audience? Screaming, shouting, standing up, happy, joyfully loud!
That's really inspiring! Wow!
I feel so good for him in the part where he was smiling. He was so proud. RIP Steve Jobs :(
I was so happy that I had the chance to be among the audience, Steve gave us goosebumps.
Imagine u‘re sitting in jail for like 30 years, when you go in jail there is this macintosh and when u come out everyone has smartphones lol
Ich Bims ... so sad..
You don´t have to imagine ! Just watch this 5min video here => th-cam.com/video/OrH6UMYAVsk/w-d-xo.html
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Have you played driver parallel lines? That game is exactly like you are saying...
You think prisoners are living on another planet and not aware of whats going on Earth. I tell you what, some prisoners are even better equipped technically than free civillians. Today it is not like several centuries ago. And prisoners are not informationally isolated.
The 80's was the greatest time of humanity.. The curosity period that changed the world for ever
mandy911 And Regan was the best president in history. A man that removed the iron clad choker placed around America, deregulated her, and allowed her to citizens and businesses to be free and innovate. There is a reason 49 out of 50 states reelected Regan in 1984. We all loved Regan for breaking the chains. Allowed for massive change. People responded by changing the world.
Mike B lmfao what does this have anything to do with what the original comment was about...?
The parties that were held in the 80’s beat anything I’ve seen since.
My parents era rocked. That level of excess probably hadn’t been seen since the 1920’s in the USA.
Talk about untrue
@@jimmorrison4163 Funny how a lot of people support anti-immigration policies and at the same time praise Reagan.
If it wasn't for Reagan's war on drugs bs, immigration or drugs or crime wouldn't be a problem.
Not to mention of course, the 20 Trillion dollar debt that the U.S is currently in. Of which nearly half is owed to China.
Hard to believe this was only 37 years ago. The tech we have now is insane and it's only going to get crazier
Only 37 year☠️
With the exception of color TV; FM stereo radio; a pocket calculator; the 45 rpm/33 LP records/cassette tapes; along with the transistor radio, technology from the 1940s to the '70s for the average consumer really didn't progress all that far. But, from the late 1970s to present day, the technological leaps have been astounding.
A person taking a time leap from the 1940s to 30 years in the future could still function well with handling the 1970s technology. But a person from the 1970s to jump to the present? It would be a struggle. Something as simple as a cordless phone they wouldn't know how to answer it.
it's the same technology, just faster and smaller
@@Dreezel reason I say that is because I'm only 32 years old, my life hasn't been that long. Now 37 years might sound and feel like a long time to an older gentleman but for me it isn't that long.
AMD Epyc now has 96 core cpu's. You can have 2 of those in the same chassis!
That's 192 physical cores, and 384 threads.. in one rack mount chassis!
I was an ad agency production manager from 1960s to 2010s. The release of the Macintosh in 1984 was a total game changer. No more physical cut and paste of text matter with photo prints to create an advert. Adverts became completely made/produced via the Mac. Macs were the platform of choice because operating them was so much more intuitive, easier and quicker than trying to do the same work on a Windows platform. Back then design and production software was mainly made for use only on Macs. Only in recent years have many softwares been built for Windows PC as well. Today most ad agencies, design and creative businesses in Australia use Macs in preference to a Windows PC. Thank heavens Apple and Steve Jobs came along when they did. Creatives never had it so good.
I worked in a small design studio in the 90's and the old hand that owned the place would do an edit to a brochure, save and close it and then would shake his head and say "that would have taken me 2 hours just a few years ago."
Apple did great things in the 1980's but it was really Microsoft all along pushing the Software on the hardware in the mid 1990's with gaming and 3d graphics software that was only once possible on SGI workstations. Apple's answer to SGI was foolish with the Next nonsense, it was a complete failure. Windows NT was the final nail in the coffin for SGI and Irix as Direct 3D/ Open GL was on the horizon. Open GL was not even supported on Mac OS for many years and this was needed for 3D software packages like Maya, Softimage and other in house suites. I believe that Microsoft buying Softimage and porting it to Windows NT away from SGI on Irix really started the Modern Graphics software race. Both Apple and Microsoft are guilty of stagnating the modern computer with the current technology we are really starting to slow down on development of a new way of computing. It seems like the tech is already here but the major companies do not want it to be released as they still have billions invested in old tech to dump on the mass consumers. Computer processors have become a joke, system memory is a joke, the Modern OS's are a joke compared to the 1980's, there is no more efficiency over looks. Look at old Apple products they were different and made a big impact, in 2024 Apple is basically a cell phone manufacturer.
30 years ago
OMG
A COMPUTER THAT CAN SPEAK 😱
Amal Al-Mukhtar more like a Computer That can show what you are actually doing
Amal Al-Mukhtar that is recorded by a man lol
Shut up muslim
Do u really hate Muslims?
@@sickedmoves7308 It uses only a human voice records reading separate letters but not whole text. Text reading performs by a program
It doesn't matter if you prefer Windows, Mac or Linux. If you like home computers, this is probably one of the most important moments of all time
megahurtz30 no, no it's not mate.
Arthas Menethil It's one of the most important moments in computing history. Without this computer it is possible we could still all be using text based systems. Apple took the concept of a GUI and made it available to the masses and it changed home computing forever as it made computers easier to use in an era where command lines were the norm.
this is the comment i said "no its not" to. "It doesn't matter if you prefer Windows, Mac or Linux. If you like home computers, this is probably one of the most important moments of all time". now take your take to read that shit and take it in.
megahurtz30 you right, but not as big as introduction of Apple II
The Mother of All Demos - Douglas Engelbart!
He made me wanna buy this thing in 2019 😂
Shut up kid it's in Museum it has no use now
Native Tube Yeah and with this comment you prove that you are officially stupid.
@@merlinak1878 u got triggered
For pubg 🤣🤣
@@nativetube well no u
This is one more proof that the 80's was a truly great time to live and grow up in. Thanks for the upload!
Everytime I get discouraged, I come back to watch this video and to see Steve's wild smile. RIP Steve!
I was 17 in 1984 which was the first time I used a computer on a training course known as the YTS in those days. It is incredible to see how much technology has advanced in 37 years.
Really??
@@anggupta461 I don’t think you believe *anyone…*
And I'm 17 now
@LeoS I’m Generation X actually.
@@darrenenever4662 I'm X
I don't use Apple's products. I prefer Windows and Android, but the significance of this unveiling as well as the iPhone's cannot be overstated. So cool to see it for the first time here in 2018. The 80's were a magical time.
Yeah lots of poor people can’t afford the good stuff, but that’s OK, it’s people like me that make sure peasants like you eventually can afford the ripped off stuff.
@@rodmunch69 Explain?
@@elfinstuff8934 Early adopters and people who buy high end products bankroll these products being built, which then are stolen and ripped off by Asian countries which then in turn sell them to welfare trash like yourself who couldn't afford it before. But you don't have to be a piece of garbage, you could just get a good job, work hard and support people who create things rather than just support people who steal things. But that's a lot of work for people of lower stock.
Rod Munch Steve Job’s was the unofficial innovative leader of every company that competed against Apple. Watch, we’re going to be playing with tablets for another 20 years because that’s where the well dried up.
@@jb6425 Well I wouldn't go that far, but Jobs was very very good at instinctively knowing what works and what doesn't, and he was a stickler for making items that would push technology but also be easy enough to use for the mass market. It's not so much what Jobs personally did, he was just great at being an a-hole and rejecting stuff if he didn't deem it perfect, and since he's been gone too many products are brought to market that are pretty good, but not insanely great. A perfect fit for Apple is Elon Musk, he's a guy that seems to have that same type of drive and instinctive ability to make items that people want - while also pushing the envelope. Apple should buy Telsa and make Musk their CEO, that I think would push Apple again to innovate rather than just refine items like they do under Cook, who is clearly just a penny pincher and has zero vision.
These early Mac's were a real sign of wealth. You maybe saw them in Dr's rooms or Lawyers with them.
That's Steve Jobes. I cried with happiness watching this video. I thank the universe that sent you to this world that you animate and inspire the soul in machines. Time has no power over us, you will always remain in my heart. And I feel the same as you at this moment!
And still no headphone jack :(
Right?!!
This was amazing when it happened. I was only 9 years old! I am almost 48 today. Steve Jobs was truly a pioneer and he left behind life changing devices that we take for granted today. He has left as much of an impact on human life as Newton, Gutenberg, Edison, the Wright Bros, and Ford.
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😅😅lol He's a thief who stole this tech from Xerox . Sit down boy.
I don't if its just me but every time I see this it brings tears to my eyes. Steve Jobs just made history.
perfect presentation - it's all about the show.
its ok
Well naturally, but Jobs has just the right charisma to pull the show off. Just because it's obviously a performance of sorts, that doesn't mean it's easy to pull off.
@@UnchainedEruption oh its rlly easy
His smile said everything. I may not have been a fan of him as a person, but you can't deny his drive changed the world of technology forever.
exactly this
It was his drive that change the cinematic world with his joining Pixar. It was his drive that pushed for a user friendly OS (though taken from Xerox) and an all in one personal computer. It was his drive that pushed for the simplication of the MP3 player and later the smartphone. It's easy to sit back and wallow in your own ignorance, but those of us in the tech community bore witness to the progress of technology, and Steve Jobs was at the forefront of bringing a lot of innovation to the consumer.
Says the dumbass who's incapable of typing out the word "you're" and using a period. Have a seat doofus.
NewUrbanVoice don't worry, they are just little kids that are salty. Never EVER talk to salty people
Good thing too because the desing of everything was getting boring. I mean, I look at how things are desinged today and think "Steve Jobs needs to redesing that."
In 2050 , ppl well look at 2019 exactly the same :|
I look forward to seeing anyone replying this thread in 2050!
true story, also 1984 will be stone ages then in 2050
Exactly right 😁😁
T! Sorrow ...we won't be around in 2050, the planet will be fried to a crisp
@@ScoreGuru123 I will be 62 by that time, I prefer to lay 6 feet under before that than live .
It will be hell if not crisp.
That's how it went. Before he went to High School, Steve would put on his dad's business suit and practice just like he was up on a stage. All they had was a bowling ball and a VCR. That was before he met and befriended Issey Miyake, and then everything changed. From then on, Steve was a new man and no one ever mocked him again.
Hah! Mock turtleneck. That was back when people wore Levi 501's.
imagine going back in time and bringing a smart phone to him
+Kader Mapel Wouldn't that make Steve Jobs not-invent the revolutionary stuff that we see today?
+Cenric He actually didn't invent that much, he found a way to implement different kinds of technology in a way that would benefit the end user so much that it kinda became the standard we know today.
That, by its self, is very creative but not inventing. It is kinda like painting a nice scenery, it is there and you didn't invent the canvas, the paint, the brushes or the scenery but you still manage to make something stunning from it.
Look it up, most things that apple is known for introducing has been around before.
+Kader Mapel you would change the world could possibly end in nuclear destrcution
+Bas van der Meij (Ykai63) Then what's your definition of inventing? Literally everything that has ever been "invented" has simply been putting things together.
mhillsman An invention is creating something new, that hasn't been seen before like when the computer mouse was invented, it was way before apple brought it to market but apple made it popular.
The same goes for the iphone, they didn't invent much of the technologies but brought them to the consumer market in a desirable way so they made those technologies popular as well.
Anyone still watching this in 1985??
Yeah
It's 2085
I've just born today, 1989...😂
LOL hahaha
1986 bro, that was soooo last year 😒
do not laugh, in 30 years our children will laugh at us in Iphone introduction ......
Jokes on you, i will not have any children
No one was laughing though
the Iphone came out 15 years ago, kids are already laughing at us.
This comment should stay until then
Maybe how knows 🐥
The very first computer we bought for our family was the Amiga 2000. Great computer, I believe it was 1987.
This was truly revolutionary in 1984! Not sure what I would have to see today in 2020 to be impressed as much as the audience in the video.
Tesla.
the reactions of the first landing of the space x boosters is a goosebump generator
seriously though. we’re so unimpressed by technology lmao
Full dive vr or a massive drop in 8k prices due to new tech.
@@ericterrier2795 LOL yeah right
_watching a simple slideshow and listening to a recorded voice_
*_crowd can't contain themselves_*
Ah, yes. Told ya that Shitsung fanboys will be butthurt. Told ya...
Same on iphone presentations now lol
It’s either recorded or they actually programmed a software to be able to speak from text.
@@konieczkowksie and that shutsung has a better phone than ur rotten apple
@@samreshcj Samsung is crap apple is the best
In general there was more excitement for things back then. I remember audiences in movie theaters cheering wildly for trailers for the next Rocky, Raiders, Star Wars or whatever summer blockbuster; now you can hear a pin drop. There was also high anticipation for the next big album and a mad rush for tickets for the upcoming tour that always reached a fever-pitch. There was even excitement for new car models. Everyone couldn't wait to see the newly restyled 1984 Corvette. Owners couldn't drive anywhere without getting stopped like they were celebrities and getting a ride in one was a thrill!
Its all been ruined because of instant gratification. Something this generation will never understand, having to wait for things. Now things happen so fast you can't get anyone to be excited anymore.
In the 2010s we entered mega sensory overload. We've bypassed pleasurable excitement for the things you mentioned, and replaced it with mad-addiction to our smartphones (understandably so).
@@Tatorvision Amen.I agree 100% with you.✌️
I still have one of the original Mac Plus' with all the peripherals as well. It launched a whole new career for me. I then bought one for my son, and it launched a career in Macintosh Computer Forensics for him. It truly was a ground breaker!
*This guy seems to be intelligent, he should start a business or something*
Great username.
@@raphaelambrosiuscostco thanks dude
THIS GUY NEEDS 500 SUBSCRIBERS
What a time to be watching this, given that our AI overlords are probably going to enslave us next month given 2020’s track record so far.
He's dead
@@Gabijavm we know
first time a man has pulled out a floppy and got a cheer !
BOOM
Hear Me Now
This crowd went wild for the limp noodle!
Thumbs up for your little joke. Don't take that the wrong way.
Ok not bad
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It was all about fitting back then. The machine fits inside the bag and disk inside the pocket.... cool indeed!!
4:03 you can just see the pride beaming from his face! RIP Steve! You are missed.
yup:(.
why would i miss a guy who made thousands of people go to store to buy PC's with proprietary software that users don't even have control of?
@@superslime16th because if you don't, we all are going to hate you forever for being a fucking 🐴
@@superslime16th because the device you are commenting from wouldn’t be there without his work
@@mt4456 i don't see how without him my pc wouldn't be there. He did embrace personal computing, but did it in a morally awful way
THIS is history. As an Apple fanboy, I have to agree, this is the most important moment in Apple's history.
This is amazing while reading the biography of Steve
Same here "Thinking Differently" by Patricia Lakin
Steve Jobs had good taste in music. That's Vangelis playing in the background. Chariots of Fire.
Queen would be better tho! XD
@@smol.inactive somebody to love
Thanks fir music name
that's 'cause the movie Chariots of Fire had come out 3 years before this presentation and had won endless awards back then.
@@nounix That's true, Vangelis won an award for that score. Really, Vangelis is a visionary much like Steve Jobs. I don't think he could have picked better music.
Watching this on (as of this year 2021) on latest model Macbook Pro. It's insane how far these machines have come. I used to love drawing on the original Mac's paintbrush program. Back then that was an incredible tool to me. I was 9 years old.
Yeah, but you could actually customize and modify/upgrade that original mac. Doing so in a MacBook Pro is verbotten.
That was the day I put my boxes of punched cards away, and never programmed in FORTRAN again. It was like turning into a butterfly.
Sometimes, I miss those cards. Especially throwing them out the window at the end of the semester.
I am not an apple fan. However, I believe the company would be 10x better today if he was still in control.
Mark Hoffman But he wasn’t so healthy. Steve Jobs had a poor diet (although he loved apples). I guess he was only good at running a technology company.
Mark Hoffman well said well said . I hate Tim cook . I want jobs actual Steve jobs . 😢
Totally agree
The apple today will shortage
yes...
Steve jobs: let's make the macintosh talk!
Tim cook: WhAT iF wE RemOvED the Hdmi port.
Lmao. No that was Johnny Ives. But still funny.
@Mr Right Agreed! The iphone literally has barely changed since Steve died.
What can you expect Tim is not a technical guy he is MBA graduate of course he will think about money only
@Mr Right but Samsung is quite more innovative than apple
@@s.r.ggaming4393 now
I was crying when I was watching this cannot speak, imagine the feelings of that people back in 1984! Fascinating!!!
you aren't too bright then are you
@@boliussa mean spirited
Can’t believe it’s been 40 years. I was barely even an idea when this thing came out!
I was reading the book of Steve Jobs by Isaac, on this part I was absolutely impressed so I searched the video, omg
Same here!
Yo ditto!
SAME DUDE
Me too
Cheers mate! Same here :)
OMG... I smiled now for 1984... Steve Jobs takes my breath away and inspires me. Every book ever written dedicated to him, mesmerises me, every moment.. Truly a legend..My salute to Steve Jobs....
It is incredible. This guy, just on that stage wrote history. Moving characters on a screen.... never seen before. Life is too short... Now i know it
Life is huge
He didnt write history. He made a ovepriced brand. IBM computer in 1981 or Commodore 64, i take that over a hipster brand anyday
@YUKAJO Microsoft didnt copy though. I think Bill Gates wrote an article 1 year after the first computer was made which was Altair 8800 computer (technically it wasnt very user friendly but it was that computer that aspired interest to make computers). So this back then caught interest to alot of computer people. But sucks that Steve is dead. As much of a non fan i am of Apple. it was fun having him here as a competition.
If retro computers are back on sale, I would take the stock immediately
@@kejiri3593 and where is ibm today? Does it even exist anymore? I’m too lazy to check. Meanwhile MacBooks are sold everywhere and are the gold standard in computing.
That was the first computer I used in the mid 80's at work, crazy how far we have come.
Damn Steve Jobs was acctually quite handsome back in his day
You gay haha
@Anon 5 😳 no homo
Handsome or not, he was still a Class A jerk. You would think with all the money he had he would have been a nicer person. People that knew him said he was a real pos.
@@teddymills1 Because money makes you nicer... Ignorant....
Steve had at least 10 Million by this time. You replied "because money makes you nicer ?" Your comment makes no sense. I was commenting that Steve was a real jerk and pos. When Steve had 200 million he was still a world class jerk pos. So money certainly did not make him nicer.
Wow, how'd they get Stephen Hawking to voice all that for Macintosh?
RIP
They asked him like respectable human beings
Jonathan Stewart
"Hello? Donald Trump? Hi, please send to Jonathan Stewart a truck full of medals... yes! A truck... thanks."
😂
Not to be Nitpicky, but the voice you were hearing is a software called DecTalk (yes, the same one that stephen hawking used from 1984 to 2014)
I typed my thesis on this computer every night from 11PM to 7AM then went to sleep (all day). That was back in April/May 1988!
How old are you right now?
He is 60 in 2021.
@@RajeshKumar-kx8qg How do u know he didn't mentioned hia age?
@@anggupta461 People write their thesis during the last year of graduate school. Assuming he graduated High School at 18, add 3 more years for undergrad, and 2 years for graduate. That means he was around 23 at 1988. Therefore, he should be around 56 now. This is assuming he wrote his masters thesis and not his PhD thesis. If he wrote his PhD thesis then add 4 more years making him around 60.
@@0xE All right then
Happy 40th anniversary, Macintosh!
I was born in the 90s, but god damn, hearing that thing talk is still one of the coolest things I’ve ever heard.
Reading Steve Jobs exclusive biography and then watching these important moments recorded. Hits differently.
I'm doing the same, biography is insane plus these lots videos are like cherry on the cake
@@rosifyy07 I have a Kindle for 3 years now, and I have completed only two books yet. This one is one of them.
1984: **introduces the revolutionary portable Macintosh**
2020: **launches wheels for $700**
i just cant beleve it man ...700$ for it .... i can make a pc for that price
They exist to get people talking about Apple, which has clearly succeeded
At this time this Macintosh retail price was about 6000$ dollars considering inflation
well hey I cant wait for the Apple glasses!!!
Monitor stand for 1000$
Couple of things here.........One, take a minute to be amazed at what computers have become, and what they can do.......Sometimes we get so used to something we forget how "insanely great" it is..........Secondly, just finished Isaacson's Jobs biography.............It's terrific, highly recommended.
Watching this on my Macbook Air 2014. RIP Steve.
pboy5456 Mac Air Mid-2011
pboy5456 2011 iMac here. Still going strong
pboy5456 MacBook Pro Mid 2012! The best laptop i've ever owned.
combossss Nice!
pboy5456 refused chemo... OOPS!
I was 13 years old and I had this PC.
These were the good old days!
I think I had a Commodore back then !
Nawaf Abu-Ghazaleh u lived my dream childhood
Some people did not realize that the Mac was actually a PC many years later.
Hi Nawaf Abu-Ghaz I saw your post are the good old days remember when the commadore computer used to be around with a floppy disc and or a cassette tape set up I do those were the good Old days
Its crazy this is only 32 years ago
Apparently it was 31 years ago
no, 32 years ago. im 32 now and this happened when i was 8 days old. Jan 16 1984 is my bday
And now wait and look how technology will develope in the next 32 years..
I'll be a senior citizen in 2048 but who knows how tech will be by then
***** I don't think we'll be around then, the way the world is going.
I'm currently reading Steve's biography. This is exactly how I imagined this speech ❤️
Does someone got this jewel on recommend section today?
Me :D
yep I didn't search for Macintosh 1985, it was in the recommended section
Me xD
Yes.
Today I was blessed
The Macintosh traveled to the future and incorporated Stephen Hawkin's voice.
His presentation is always full of sense of humor. I love him even tho I am no longer an Apple fan.
One of the most insightful person ever. RIP.
Watching this on an iPad, 40 years later.
Who’s here watching this at home on quarantine & chill ?
Me
Me
Woah, hey there
And also me
Me
1984: Introduces Macintosh
2019: Introduces Mac Pro Stand for $999
*Hahaha Sfx
No he didnt, he died in 2011
@@UCEv75 yet still its the apple company that introduced it? Lmao
Naughty_Potion your also trying to be ignorant by putting that “lmao”. Trying to trigger someone?
@@KJ-is5ug I was trying to be friendly, so that my comment is not that insulting
You had to pay money to get extra fonts. The Apple way.
I was one of the early 128K Mac buyers. I balked at paying $60 for some cable, I think it was a printer cable but eventually discovered an Atari game machine cable had exactly the same pinout, it sold for something like $5.99. It was a great dream and a good lesson for me to avoid ever getting fooled again by hype. I sold it some months later, happy to get $900 for what was essentially a worthless toy.
@@Jimserac what abt those* videos watching
@@jaijai1165 What videos ??
@@Jimserac cartoon videos
@@jaijai1165 What's a "Pawn" Video ? I don't get what you are referring to. If it was a comment, just quote it. Thanks.
This was basically a vision of the future. If Apple does AR right it will be this moment again. There were plenty of PCs on the market at this point. But this was something different.
That face says it all.. he made it, on top of the world !
also, I love how the crowd immediately keep quiet when the Macintosh is talking 😂😂
This was really fabulous. The man who started it all, and changed the world in the process, with a little box of magic. You rocked the world, Steve Jobs!
Yeah changed it to sadly wrong cause because I hope that this time we are living in asnt what he visualized then..
Lol you think he invented the first personal computer?? 🤣🤣 home computing was around since 1977
@@filiplaskovski9993when you have poor knowledge
This occurred 31 years ago and I get chills and teary eyed seeing the smooth text roll across the screen. I started with a Sinclair ZX-81 in 1981 or so...8k memory with 8k expansion using a b&w tv and audio tape recorder to save/load programs. I was 10. In 1988 - three days after graduating high school I landed a on the job training Computer Operator job at a database management company. If you didn't live through these times...if you didn't experience this from the get go...you will probably never understand. This video ranks in my book as one of the most inspiring moments in the realm of personal computer history. Steve Jobs later said of this moment - outside of the birth of his children - this was his proudest moment ever. RIP Steve - Apple forever changed my life and landed me in a career which I enjoy with passion to this day. Think Different. RIP Steve.
jjs777fzr wow.. i too had a zx-81 ... then an apple IIe ...
+jjs777fzr Ah, the zx 81, what a POS .....
Nautilus1972 yes. You got what you paid for, the Mac literally cost 30 times more. This thing cost £70.
Dubsy 102
PCs that time cost $2500-$4000
The Mac was originally priced at $1000 but the board disagreed with Steve Jobs and agreed to the suggestion of $2495 by Apple CEO, John Sculley
That thing about price is utterly misleading. The Mac was intended as a budget computer (by Apple standards anyway), but when Steve Jobs got his hands on it, he added features to the point it cost far more, hence the final price.
Now, you are also being misleading when you say 'PC's at the time cost $2500-$000'. Firstly, IBM PCs at the time did cost that much NEW, but by now the IBM PC AT was out, so you could find an original PC for $1500 or so second hand, and it was only 3 years old.
The IBMs had so many features the Mac didn't. Colour, for instance. Also, you could upgrade them to the point that you could get processors as good as the 486 on the AT, keeping it relevant for a decade. They also had hard drives, another thing omitted by Macs. The 8!! expansion slots made them excellent for companies who needed to do anything specialised, for example there were fax cards available. Again, none of this was on Mac. Mac's had horrible design capability (no colour), horrible sound (literal beeps, PC could hook into MIDI and use sound cards), and no upgradability. PCs of the time could do 640KB of RAM, and later much higher, the Mac had 128KB.
Result: PC ATs, released the same year, were better in every aspect and could run OSs up to Windows 95, whilst the Mac was obsolete in 5 years and only useful for the simplest of business tasks.
In home use, neither were any good. Macs had basically no games and PCs were expensive, but the PC was still far better as it did actually have games. No, what you might want is something like the Amiga or Atari ST, which had literally identical processors to the Mac, with the same or more RAM, just as much expandability (N/A), and the holy grail, COLOUR. OR, you could by a commodore 64 for about $300 (always falling to), pr maybe in the UK a ZX Spectrum for £125, and all of these managed colour, decent processors, and only half of the RAM.
WOW, aren't Macs amazing, barely beating 3 year old budget home computers!
There aren’t many videos that make me well up, but for some reason, this one always gets me. Phenomenal.