I get nostalgic watching videos like this one. The Blueberry Rev. D iMac was my first Apple product. I saved up to buy it for college. I loved that machine and still have it 22 years later. Owning the iMac changed my computing life - I've only ever owned Macs since.
This is THE first computer that I ever used in kindergarten in 2003. The iMac G3 is the reason I am still Apple obsessed 17 years later. My elementary school started out with the Indigo iMac g3 and later transitioned to the iMac G5 with iSight and I was able to get one of each a couple years ago when the school was getting rid of a lot of old tech. I still don't know how my rural school was able to afford over 100 $1000+ iMacs but I'm glad they could!
Thank you guys for doing such an awesome job with this series! I remember seeing the G3 in a computer lab in college. They had USB 3.5 inch floppy drives hooked up to them.
My first Mac was an iMac DV+. It was the first that came in the new "bold" colors. You know, Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald along with Graphite. I had the Ruby one. I didn't know anything about Apple products at the time. I switched solely on what I'd seen of the upcoming Mac OS X. I bought it in September of 2000 not knowing that they had literally just updated the machines. I wanted a Tangerine so bad. I wanted orange. I loved orange. It was what made me want the Mac in the first place. (Well actually it was the G4 Cube which I still wish I had acquired at some point) I was disappointed but the red color was so nice I was still happy. I regret to this day selling it on eBay two years later to help buy my G4 sunflower. It really was a beautiful machine. When I took it into an Apple repair shop to replace the HDD the woman there remarked about how much she loved that colored model. I would love to have kept it. Not that I have anywhere to put it now. I tried to fill the void left by it a few years later by buying an older revision B Bondi machine with a tray before they put the slots in. But it wasn't the same.
Absolutely the right choice. I remember it well. I ran straight out to buy one and put it in my office. I loved it to death and everyone who saw it commented on it. I wish Apple would do the change-of-colors thing with its laptops (at least the MBA). Occasionally changing the colors, instead of just picking one and having it be the forever color (gold) with occasional minute variation. Some people upgraded their iMac before they really needed to, simply because they loved the newest color. Did it complicate inventory? No doubt it did, but frankly Apple has more money than it knows what to do with anyway, and sacrificing a bit of that to bring back some of the fun that used to be in the Macs... it ought to be worth that.
My family’s first Mac (the slot-loading drive revision). Truly iconic. Remember playing SimCity 2000 and making websites with PageSpinner and Transmit.
Thanks guys for making 2020 a bit more bearable! And yes, this is the Mac that made Apple Apple again. And although I do actually still use OS9, I remember the exitement of changing versions of OSX on my Bondi blue iMac, watching Steve Jobs at night. This was the Mac that I made my wedding booklet, my kids videos of their birth, my first website, never to touch a PC again. Not even at work! It was the Apple that made Apple loyalists proud again and made us feel superior to the Windows nerds. A very good pick for the number one spot indeed. So what's for 2021?
"...in middle school..." - I, I'm sure just like Jason, immediately went "whipper snapper!" Yeah... The iMac came out after I was out of college. I was working technical support at a major dial-up internet company, and the company had signed a deal to become one of the "included/promotional" internet providers on the iMac. So our technical support department got one iMac. Just one. For a support floor of ~100 desks. "Oh, Mac problem? Hang on, let me go drag the iMac over to my desk. Whoops, someone else is using it, let's see if I can remember how to reconfigure Mac OS's TCP/IP panel from memory..."
The Brooklyn Public Central library had just finished major renovations just in time to add maybe a hundred of these to their Youth Loft. It was the first Mac I ever used, and I have fond memories of that time many Macs later.
At the apple store I worked at, people kept leaving the bathroom locked inside the bathroom. So they connected the bathroom key to a G3 iMac... Also, great series guys. Not that you need to do another one of the same but I'd love any short form media that you make together - podcast or video.
I had a tangerine iMac SE as my first computer. I remember playing Star Wars Ep. 1: Podracer, and a variety of Humongous Games content for hours in Saturday mornings. Good times.
What i would love to see and even buy a mac just for that, is when they do something like this again. So the new M1 mac in that case. It's all glass and metal looking, just get a series like this back.
we still have a meme about the translucency from an ad for a media storage box that had a blue-green see-through casing and actually put in the advert "iMac compatible"
@@JasonSnell Ah, OK. Because of the white, I thought it was an older polycarbonate MacBook. How did Apple get Jeff Goldblum for the iMac G3 commercials? I wonder if he was a big fan of Apple products?
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The one "thumbs down" on this video must be Siracusa.
I get nostalgic watching videos like this one. The Blueberry Rev. D iMac was my first Apple product. I saved up to buy it for college. I loved that machine and still have it 22 years later. Owning the iMac changed my computing life - I've only ever owned Macs since.
This is THE first computer that I ever used in kindergarten in 2003. The iMac G3 is the reason I am still Apple obsessed 17 years later. My elementary school started out with the Indigo iMac g3 and later transitioned to the iMac G5 with iSight and I was able to get one of each a couple years ago when the school was getting rid of a lot of old tech. I still don't know how my rural school was able to afford over 100 $1000+ iMacs but I'm glad they could!
This makes a lot of sense, without the G3 iMac to refocus Apple and reset the idea of what Apple means they probably wouldn’t have made it.
Thank you guys for doing such an awesome job with this series! I remember seeing the G3 in a computer lab in college. They had USB 3.5 inch floppy drives hooked up to them.
Perfect pick. Gonna miss this series!
My first Mac was an iMac DV+. It was the first that came in the new "bold" colors. You know, Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald along with Graphite. I had the Ruby one. I didn't know anything about Apple products at the time. I switched solely on what I'd seen of the upcoming Mac OS X. I bought it in September of 2000 not knowing that they had literally just updated the machines. I wanted a Tangerine so bad. I wanted orange. I loved orange. It was what made me want the Mac in the first place. (Well actually it was the G4 Cube which I still wish I had acquired at some point) I was disappointed but the red color was so nice I was still happy. I regret to this day selling it on eBay two years later to help buy my G4 sunflower. It really was a beautiful machine. When I took it into an Apple repair shop to replace the HDD the woman there remarked about how much she loved that colored model. I would love to have kept it. Not that I have anywhere to put it now. I tried to fill the void left by it a few years later by buying an older revision B Bondi machine with a tray before they put the slots in. But it wasn't the same.
Absolutely the right choice. I remember it well. I ran straight out to buy one and put it in my office. I loved it to death and everyone who saw it commented on it. I wish Apple would do the change-of-colors thing with its laptops (at least the MBA). Occasionally changing the colors, instead of just picking one and having it be the forever color (gold) with occasional minute variation. Some people upgraded their iMac before they really needed to, simply because they loved the newest color. Did it complicate inventory? No doubt it did, but frankly Apple has more money than it knows what to do with anyway, and sacrificing a bit of that to bring back some of the fun that used to be in the Macs... it ought to be worth that.
Great series! Thank you- I looked forward to every week's installment.
My family’s first Mac (the slot-loading drive revision). Truly iconic. Remember playing SimCity 2000 and making websites with PageSpinner and Transmit.
Thanks guys for making 2020 a bit more bearable! And yes, this is the Mac that made Apple Apple again.
And although I do actually still use OS9, I remember the exitement of changing versions of OSX on my Bondi blue iMac, watching Steve Jobs at night. This was the Mac that I made my wedding booklet, my kids videos of their birth, my first website, never to touch a PC again. Not even at work! It was the Apple that made Apple loyalists proud again and made us feel superior to the Windows nerds. A very good pick for the number one spot indeed.
So what's for 2021?
I love the iMac G3! I got my hands on a Bondi Blue and since last year it’s been sitting at my desk like a piece of art!
"...in middle school..." - I, I'm sure just like Jason, immediately went "whipper snapper!" Yeah... The iMac came out after I was out of college. I was working technical support at a major dial-up internet company, and the company had signed a deal to become one of the "included/promotional" internet providers on the iMac. So our technical support department got one iMac.
Just one. For a support floor of ~100 desks. "Oh, Mac problem? Hang on, let me go drag the iMac over to my desk. Whoops, someone else is using it, let's see if I can remember how to reconfigure Mac OS's TCP/IP panel from memory..."
Yes, I did think that. I did.
I had a grape G3 iMac... it was a massive hit product... they started turning up in office receptions all over the place too...
It was my first Mac 😍 Thank you so much for the series and I miss it already!
This was the first Mac I used in my elementary school computer lab. I wanted one sooooo bad!
The Brooklyn Public Central library had just finished major renovations just in time to add maybe a hundred of these to their Youth Loft. It was the first Mac I ever used, and I have fond memories of that time many Macs later.
At the apple store I worked at, people kept leaving the bathroom locked inside the bathroom. So they connected the bathroom key to a G3 iMac...
Also, great series guys. Not that you need to do another one of the same but I'd love any short form media that you make together - podcast or video.
Thanks for a great series! I've listened to all the podcasts and viewed all the videos, and it's been fantastic. Cheers, and happy New year! 😊🍻🥳
I had a tangerine iMac SE as my first computer. I remember playing Star Wars Ep. 1: Podracer, and a variety of Humongous Games content for hours in Saturday mornings. Good times.
What i would love to see and even buy a mac just for that, is when they do something like this again. So the new M1 mac in that case. It's all glass and metal looking, just get a series like this back.
we still have a meme about the translucency from an ad for a media storage box that had a blue-green see-through casing and actually put in the advert "iMac compatible"
The one and only NO. 1 mac.
Thank you, Jason!
My favorite Mac 😍
Knew it would be iMac g3 😍
Yay! Excellent #1 pick!
that was the first mac that I use, with the OS X!
Ofcourse it's the G3!
I thought steve just go banana on this. It is great fun to see that computer is cool. But could it work?
Yes we can.
What the name of the intro music? Or is it a custom made track just for this video series? Thanks.
Who was the voice in those iMac and iBook ads from back then? It sounds almost like a young Adam west
It was Jeff Goldblum!
@@martymclean3763 Hearing that it suddenly clicks. I think it was the 90s hiss that threw me off.
And... we ignore the “mouse”...
Please enjoy an extended riff on how bad the mouse was in the podcast version of this entry...
Hey Jason, what's that white iBook (or is it a Macbook?) behind you in the stand with the rainbow Apple logo sticker on it?
It’s probably a MacBook Air , those stands are also quite popular among ppl who use external monitors at home
As EpicRive correctly pointed out, it's my 2014 era MacBook Air 11"
@@JasonSnell Ah, OK. Because of the white, I thought it was an older polycarbonate MacBook. How did Apple get Jeff Goldblum for the iMac G3 commercials? I wonder if he was a big fan of Apple products?
@@dave4shmups It's silver in person, just reflecting the light brightly. I'm sure Mr. Goldblum got paid well!
:sixheart: Discord emoji! Great choice for #1 :)
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