On 24 January 1984 Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple Macintosh at the company's shareholders meeting in Cupertino, California, pulling it out of a bag. Two days before, a television commercial directed by Ridley Scott, shown during the Super Bowl, had presented it as a challenge to the conformity of the IBM-dominated computer world, with the line, 'You'll see why 1984 won't be like 1984'. The Macintosh, priced at 2,495 dollars, was the first successful personal computer with a graphical user interface and mouse, ideas developed at Xerox PARC, and with a screen of icons and windows, it made computers friendly for non-experts. Desktop publishing followed in 1985.
Before and after
- 1984Establishment of Sundarbans National Park
- 1984The Turkana Boy skeleton is found
- 8 January 1984Birth of Kim Jong-un
- 23 January 1984Birth of Arjen Robben
- 24 January 1984Apple introduces the Macintosh
- from 1 February 1984 to 4 August 1988Tankers War
- 23 February 1984Launch of TED
- from 13 April 1984 to 25 November 2003Siachen conflict
- 11 May 1984Birth of Andrés Iniesta
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- 1945Invention of computer
- 1964Discovery of rutherfordium
- 29 October 1969Invention of Internet
- July 1974Discovery of seaborgium
- 1984Discovery of hassium
- 15 January 2001Wikipedia
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