30 years of Apple in three minutes

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Hardware, Cult of Mac, Odds and ends, Apple

Megan’s great roundup of Apple history from the other day wasn’t enough nostalgia for you? It should have been — wow there was a lot of old Apple stuff in there. But just in case your itch for the days of Apple yore isn’t yet scratched, here’s a great little video compilation of every Apple product from the last thirty years, squished into three minutes and set to Fiona Apple’s cover of “Across the Universe.”

The IIe! The PowerCD! The QuickTake! And even those early notebooks, which look so blocky today, were impressive in their time. Unfortunately, this video won’t tell you much about what these products all were, but just the sight of some of these old units is enough to make the memories come flooding back for us old Apple fans. The iPhone and the iPod are so much hipper, it seems, compared to the units of Apple’s past — you think we’ll ever look back with such nostalgia on the first touchscreens we got? A product like the Newton was so charming because it was so quirky, but the iPhone is sleek, popular, and impressive. Do you think future generations will look back at today’s Apple products with the same fondness?

Thanks to everyone who sent this in!

TUAW30 years of Apple in three minutes originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:15:00 EST.