This video shows how macOS has changed from 1984 to 2022, giving us a glimpse into the amazing journey of the Mac. It's hard to believe now that the first blocky monochrome graphics system shown at the beginning of the video was revolutionary when it first appeared...
Macworld found a video by Martin Nobel.
The Mac operating system has been around for 38 years and has undergone many changes during that time. Now you can see how much has changed in a 10-minute video by Nobel Tech that covers the Mac user interface from System 0.97 to macOS 13 Ventura.
This video shows each version of the Finder, and several components of each version, such as About the Native Menu, Control Panel (eventually renamed System Preferences, now called System Preferences in Ventura), Calculator , QuickTime. , and more. Nobel Tech lists the timestamps for each operating system in the video description, in case you want to jump in.
Nobel Tech videos are a great way to see how different parts of the Mac have evolved. Long-time Mac users will notice old items that no longer exist, such as Number Puzzles on the Apple menu, the Font Mover app, and Scrapbook. QuickTime's user interface has changed from its original implementation in which the video size had to be limited in order to maintain image quality and frame rate. The appearance of the control panel and how each option is presented reminds you of how far your Mac's capabilities have evolved.
If you've been through these generations yourself, like me, or if you've seen macOS from 1984 and beyond for the first time, it's been a fascinating journey through time.
I was old enough to have my first Macintosh and remember how advanced it was compared to the CP/M and MS-DOS command line PCs we were using at the time.
He smiles at you when he starts. You don't have directory listings, you have folder images. Instead of typing the name of an application or file to open it, you double-click it using a weird new thing called a mouse. When you bold a word, it appears bold on the screen. You have different fonts!
That was incredible. I immediately realized that this is how computers are supposed to be. I want one.
I can not afford it. Today it's $5,600 just for the computer itself. The ImageWriter printer required to print these great new fonts is optional. My first year in journalism, when it was a big part of my annual salary.
But times have changed. Then Apple wooed journalists, not for anyone else. Apple felt that if we had Macintosh, we would write about them (and rightly so). So she gave reporters a discount. Very generous discount: 60%. (In case you're wondering, we don't have a discount at all right now.) It's still a ton of cash, but I don't care, I have to have it: I have my seventh Macintosh coming to the UK. .
You can watch the 10-minute video below.
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