History of the iMac 

Did any of you guys actually own the original iMac??

The iMac was my first computer, my parentals bought it for me when I was in high school. I still have the original keyboard and mouse!

I thought it would be the history of the entire iMac line.

when we were little kids and our school had these I was so fascinated by them. and they were like fairly recent machines too. I remember when they updated them from os 9 to os 10 I was like mindblown.

That's the history of the first imac only, you should more 3 or 4 more parts on the g4,g5, aluminum, 5k, imacs!!

9:13 ‘Jobs pressed a button on the prototype and a CD tray slid out and he said “What the f*** is this?” 😂

i remember going to elementary school & using these in 1999, i actually hated them lol, at the times we would play games, go on "netscape" (the internet) but it wasn't appealing to me. Now when i get the chance to even see one i get excited...i love them, they look so unique and different, nothing like you ever see today.

2:05 that IBM laptop screen is so off center... OCD is kicking in hard

I never owned an iMac, but I did use one a lot in a photography class I took in high school. It was excellent at the time for simple photo rendering, and was just an overall fun computer to use. (This was about 2000-2001 time frame.)

1 Trillion Dollars It’s hard to believe that this company was 90 days from bankruptcy

My school had a club called Eagle Club and they had an original iMac in the blue color. I don't know when they got it but in 2007 they were using it in there lol. We could earn computer time by completing homework and by first spending time outside. Ahhh good old first grade.

I think if the iMac was able to be released a few years earlier, Apple's marketshare with home computers would be similar to their marketshare with smartphones. Home PCs really began to be common with Windows 95 and the internet. By the time the iMac was released, too many were invested in the Windows ecosystem to really make the switch to MacOS.

I miss using these computers in School our entire computer class upgraded to these iMac's within a week! And I saw why... So easy to use loved the colors and the colored mouses such a cool Machine! Now we have the new boring looking iMac's that really need a change of style everything is either Spaced Grey, Silver, Black, or Gold LAME!!!

I remember this era! I watched this computer on billboards for two years until my parents finally got me the indigo iMac! This was a moment in time!

Very intersing =D Thank you! (Again)

Dam bro what a great video 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼ur research and the way u deliver the content of the video is amazing. We appreciate ur work and always look forward to ur videos

What about all of the other iMacs?

My first Mac was the flower power back in 2001. Damn! I also bought the Harmon Kardon isub. That base was fucking insane!!!! I picked up a black mouse pad from Marshalls' that had a gel palm rest. Believe it or not, it's still soft after 18 years. The ups guy wrote "cool computer on the box". Man, do I wish I had pictures from back then to share. Sadly my flower power died back in 2009. The isub was worthless because Harmon Kardon didn't create any drivers for the newer versions of OS X. So that bad boy got tossed in the bin. I'll never forget the days playing quake with that bass from my speaker shaking the walls. I wish you could have seen it. That fresh, new iMac out the box and the literature. Sniff! Sniff! It was a fucking amazing piece of tech.

Love the video!

funny thing is - from my whole collection of iMacs - the slot-loading drives have almost all failed at ejecting a cd but the tray loaders work just fine. Plus - the iMac G4 had a tray and jobs marketed that as a friendly tongue-sticking-out

7:17 Image from the 8-Bit Guy

I didn't have time to watch this beacuse I hade to stuf for my mom.... The video was awesome Greg!!!

More like the history of the first iMac. What about all subsequent ones?

Damn hearing about the reaction to abandoning the floppy drive reminds me of the reaction to the removal of the USB port of MacBooks

I Love it, just keep on, keep doing this plesae, you a really god, you got my subscribe for this

Great video!👏

I’m glad that they stuck with the “i” at the beginning of the new devices, I love it for some reason lol

I don't even own or like apple products yet i still love watching these videos

Jony Ive’s quote at 3:36 is the key to Apple’s success and something companies like Samsung will never truly understand

These must be something really special because a school I use to work at a few years ago had a music teacher that still used a blue iMac

God I remember using those original blue transparent iMacs in school in the early mid 2000s

What about the other models in the iMac line?

VIDEO IDEA: History of Beats Audio

I actually still have my iMac G4! She sits on my desk, and still runs great. ^^

7:17 I love the 8-bit guy!

Really interesting

I bought one last year not working for $20. I eventually worked out that the problem was due to fried RAM. $10 later on eBay and it now runs perfectly! Never had one in the day though (I'm born in '99).

I have a thing for transparent plastic. I thank the G1 iMac and the Game Boy Color.

I HAVE A GOOD IDEA FOR A VIDEO! Why did Apple make an eMac? Next to the iMac, there was an eMac for a short time!

I grew up using a Windows 95 PC at home. I distinctively remembering using an iMac at school and thinking it was a "toy" computer and not a real work computer because it was so colourful and transparent, lacked a right-click and lacked a 3.5" floppy disk drive, which I associated with "real work."

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Still using my Graphite G3

As an Apple Tech in the 90's , I worked on every kind of Mac. The iMac Was my favorite.

I remember the original imac the mouse was perfect for my tiny hands. Everyone else I knew weren't to happy about the mouse.

Is it true that that was the longest recorded ovation or something among those lines? I remember reading something about that

I loved the puck mouse for the simple reason I could move it with my mere finger tips while my hand heel rested stationary on the desk top. So much more comfortable. Next best thing to a trackpad.

Thx guys

A blueberry iMac G3 Rev. D, running at 333 MHz, was my second PC ever. I never went back, happy macOS user since the memorable Mac OS 8.6

Remember netbooks. Those were aweful

Great video, but no mention on where the actual iMac project came from: its the "Mac G3 All In One", an all-in-one consumer design (1997) that actually turned into the iMac when Steve got Jony to work freely on it.

Next we need History of Webkit

Of course you wouldn't show your boss something you don't want him to pick.

This iMac was our first family computer 🤗

I had the flower power iMac, Harmon Kardon isub . Amazing! 2001!

I recently got a iMac G3 (a second or thirdish revision. the 333mhz model) for 30 bucks off a local Facebook marketplace post. It included the original keyboard and mouse. (the listing only showed a photo of the main unit. I wasn't expecting it to include those, so that was a nice surprise. :D ) I kinda like the hockey puck mouse. I do agree it's hard to orient it correctly. But I haven't had much issue using the mouse. Helps that I have skinny spider hands so the feel of using the mouse didn't feel off to me. For perspective, I find using the Nintendo's Joy-Cons separately without the little lanyard thing attached more comfortable. The lanyard attachment things make them feel to bulky for me and if the Joy-Cons fit just right for me, this mouse was fine too. I do wish it was a little less round though so I knew where to point it. :P The keyboard though...is a little less enjoyable. Maybe due to it's age, but even after giving all the keys a good leaning, the keys still have a lot of resistance and some keys if pressed from the edge are harder to press down causing me to miss keys. Maybe just due to me being use to the PC keyboard which is very soft compared to this one. But yeah wish the keys were a bit softer on it. Glad I found the last model that had a tray loading optical drive. I can see why Jobs wanted the slot loading one. But 20 years later, those slot loading drives are starting to have mechanical failures and crap. The tray loader in mine seems to still run great, so that's one less thing to worry about. :P Oh and I also have a eMac G4. lol, the first thing I did when I got the imac G3 home was test the keyboard on the eMac. Sadly I can confirm you can't turn on an eMac with the G3 keyboard's power button. I guess they took out that functionality. G3 iMac looks to be the last machines they made where you could turn it on from the keyboard. Unfortunate. The eMac's power button is a pain in the ass to find. Hard to find based on feel, so I always have to bend over to find it when fumbling around trying to turn the damn thing on. Doesn't help that if I have to take the back cover off (which I'll have to do soon since mine needs to get recapped) I have to do it carefully to avoid breaking the power button/power button connector. I like the iMac G3 even better now that i have it. Better aesthetic to it then the eMac. Plus I never really liked flat screen style CRTs which the eMac has. But the iMac has a curved CRT still so it works better. The eMac had the design style of the later G4's that started using LCD panels and I didn't like how those looked. Still gonna keep it though. My eMac is the last model. The 1.2ghz model and I maxed that out to 2GB of DDR ram. Despite 2 blown out capacitors on the motherboard (which I found when I took it apart for cleaning. :P ) it still runs fine it seems. But running it like that isn't a good idea, so I've retired it temporarily until I get that taken care of. My cheap chineasium $10 soldering iron won't cut it. I could probably manage it, but I don't want to damage the motherboard with a cheap soldering iron. I want a get a proper soldering gun/vacuum pump before I attempt it. I've worked on a couple old TVs with this cheap iron and haven't had much issue. But when removing parts off a couple dead P4 PC motherboard, I had issues getting the solder to melt/getting the components off was a pain. So yeah. Gonna wait on that one. Hopefully the iMac G3s missed the capacitor plague of the early 2000s. Judging from photos, the iMac's motherboard uses SMD mounted capacitors much like some of the mid 90's Macs. So not gonna be fun trying to replace those if I ever need to. :P

I had one! The first Apple model I had!

I remember seeing tons of those computers at school, they eventually replaced them with Dell Optiplex PCs with Windows XP.

My first computer. My mother had the beige box. It was more than frustrating that for about ten years software engineers were afraid of developing for the iMac. One of them made one version 3.0 and refused to consider as it was doomed to failure according to them (who is now known as Ancestry).

11:14 Is that a Malaysia newspaper? Because of the price RM, Malaysian here, hehe.

What were the other 4 names that were pitched?

Wow! Cool.

Nice video

At 7:18 you took an image from the 8-bit Guy

The G4 iMac had a tray drive as well.

Can you make a video on why did apple make a budget iPad

Yees thank you

cool video i wish u included the part of the appleimac domain dispute :)

7:19 ah a thumbnail from a 8-bit guy video, you have a great taste

11:06 Why am I getting a feeling of deja vu? Is it late 2016 again?

my favourite apple product

Very cool and I’m the 10th like

Seeing this video on iMac late 2006 ;)

Yes

Tq bro 🤓

It’s sad that technology isn’t improving at the rate it used to. Just look at the iMac from 1998 to 2008 and 2008 to 2018.

You can say "Scasi" to SCSI.

Steve wanted a real R2-D2 to market. 😃😃😃

I wouldn’t call this the history of the iMac as much as it’s the history of the iMac LAUNCH. The iMac has since been interacted on a TON, and none of that is captured here.

iMac rocks!

nice vid here before 1000 views

Just a suggestion: you should add “explained” to the titles of these video le to distinguish form your other Keynote videos. So this title would be: “History of the iMac Explained”

This is history of First iMac. Not all iMacs like a iMac G4 and G5

didnt include anything about apple imac .com domain dispute :(

Funny, the same backlash for the floppy drive then is the same for the headphone jack now. Apple has always been forward thinking and unafraid to adapt to changes early. Many of their device had longevity for that reason after Jobs came back to the company.

Back when I refurbished computers I had my hands on many G3 series iMac's! But I never kept one for my self, because I was always more into the Mac Pro's, because I ran them next to my PC's at the time on a KVM Switch (space saving) But I do wish I kept one for my self, i decided awhile ago if I ever see a iMac free for the taking or very cheap I'm going to grab one. As a collector I would prefer an original one, I had my hands on them in the past. But beggars can't be chooses at this point. Honesty I shouldn't get anymore computers..... Way to much of a hoarder....... But..... I already decided.....

When are we getting the iCheese?

20 years of the Original iMac Since 1998 Quoted as "The Most Original *Macintosh* Since the *Original* Macintosh"

Apple Explained, please make a main video about the History of the Macintosh computer, iMac G3, and the successor iMac models from the G4 to the modern iMac with a aluminum unibody design that we know today. Please also add this topic to your voting poll after the next video.

Where’s the infrared in the picture of ye I/O? Is that what filled the empty slot?

Please do a history of eMac

The quality of your videos are Apple quality. Worth to watch it over and over again.

Great apple

Am I the only who is amazed anything ever got made when Jobs was running the place? As much as I admire Apple and indeed their products Jobs always comes across as an absolute nightmare to work for and I do wonder if a lot of people went home at the end of the day thinking "I have not achieved a thing today"

5:18 when someone steals your cookies

Steve Jobs is a visionary

I hate to say it but it really dose look like Judy Jetson's easy bake oven. See the new Steve Jobs movie for the refrance.

It was a really cool computer for its time. The mouse was not a good one so that would be the one thing that I would have replaced had I owned one at the time.

I literally thought the thumbnail was the first part of a train lmao

SCSI is called “scuzzy”

7:17 the 8 bit guy