![]() The iMac’s sole reliance on the USB interface meant that Mac users had to throw out all their old mice, keyboards, scanners, printers, and external drives. By focusing on the iMac’s internet aptitude, Apple chose a unique way to differentiate its product from other computers and to leapfrog to the top of the consumer PC heap. With the “I” in “Mac” being short for “internet,” Apple billed the iMac as an easy way to get connected to the global network (in just two steps, according to one Apple advertisement). After the internet became ho-hum everyday news, Apple’s iPrefix shifted meaning to serve puns like “iSight,” or to ambiguously imply the empowering first-person pronoun “I,” as in “iChat.” Catching the internet waveĪpple’s first marketing angle with the iMac relied heavily on the expanding popularity of the internet in the mid-1990s. The “I” prefix even trickled out to non-Apple product names–mostly in the form of iPod accessories. The “I” in “iMac” originally stood for “internet” (or alternately: “individual, instruct, inform, or inspire,” according to Steve Jobs’ introductory 1998 iMac slide show). Where did all those lowercase iPrefixes come from? You can thank the iMac for starting this ubiquitous Apple branding trend. IThis, iThat-iPod, iPhone, iChat, iLife, iSight. As for the strawberry iMac, it has 40 bids in total, with the highest at $8,500.Before the iMac, beige was the predominant color of computers. As for how much money it will take to grab a piece of internet history, the price for the Wikipedia edit will likely go up to millions if the earlier NFT auctions by Berners-Lee and Dorsey are anything to go by. 'The Birth of Wikipedia' auction started on Dec. It is worth noting that these are the specs for the top-end G3/400 DV model, so lower-end variants, like the G3/350, for instance, offered relatively weaker specs for more affordable price tags.īoth the NFT and the iMac are being auctioned by Christie's. Unfortunately, it only offered up to 10/100 BASE-T Ethernet connectivity with no provision for Wi-Fi or Bluetooth but did come with a Harmon-Kardon-designed sound system. The display is a 15-inch CRT monitor with a 1024 x 768-pixel resolution. ![]() ![]() Other notable tech specs include up to 10GB of ATA hard drive and a slot-loading 4X DVD-ROM drive, which was an upgrade over the tray-loading machines from the previous generation. While Berners-Lee sold off an NFT of the first web browser's source code for $5.4 million and donated the proceeds to charity, Dorsey auctioned off an NFT of his first-ever tweet for $2.9 million. The NFT is written to the Ethereum blockchain and is similar in concept to earlier NFT sales by internet pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. The edit was a simple message - "Hello World" - written on the Wikipedia homepage after the site went live in January 2001. ![]() Related: 15 Most Expensive NFTs Sold (So Far)Īlongside the Strawberry iMac, Wales is also selling an NFT based on his first edit of Wikipedia. Per EveryMac, graphics duties were taken care of by the ATI Rage 128 VR 2D/3D (AGP 2X) GPU with up to 8MB of VRAM. The iMac is powered by a single-core PowerPC 750 processor clocked at between 266 and 400MHz and with barely 64KB of L1 cache and 512KB of backside level 2 cache. While it was cutting-edge back in the day, it is hopelessly inadequate for even the most basic of tasks circa 2021. While the original one only came in Bondi Blue, Apple added many color options in 1999, including Blueberry, Grape, Tangerine, Lime, and Strawberry. It was part of Apple's iMac G3 lineup that was initially released in 1998 and continued to be sold until 2001 with updated hardware and design. The strawberry iMac that Wales used to create Wikipedia is a far cry from the ultra-powerful modern iMacs in terms of tech specs. ![]()
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