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The First Apple Homepage
Kevin Fox ^ | April 16, 2015 | Kevin Fox

Posted on 04/18/2015 1:56:09 PM PDT by EveningStar

Last week I happened across a blog post showing the history of Apple.com over the past 17 years, complete with screenshots culled from the very earliest days of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. It’s a serious trip down memory lane, but it didn’t go back far enough ...

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(Excerpt) Read more at kfury.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet; History; Science
KEYWORDS: 1992; apple; applehomepage; firstapplehomepage; homepage; kevinfox; kfury

1 posted on 04/18/2015 1:56:09 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Swordmaker; SunkenCiv

ping


2 posted on 04/18/2015 1:56:30 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

well now that’s pretty cool! Smorgasboard is just not something you see on every website.


3 posted on 04/18/2015 2:00:26 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: EveningStar

Wonder what Jon Ives would think of the website design.


4 posted on 04/18/2015 2:05:28 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: EveningStar

Nowadays the “Your Feedback” selection probably uses the same APP the “Delete Now” selection uses.


5 posted on 04/18/2015 2:14:21 PM PDT by lee martell (The sa)
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To: EveningStar

Nice.


6 posted on 04/18/2015 2:18:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: EveningStar

That typeface (Garamond at 80% width) was used for LONG time in Apple advertising.


7 posted on 04/18/2015 2:20:31 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Yardstick

I don’t believe he was on board at that time ... :-) ...


8 posted on 04/18/2015 2:44:03 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: EveningStar

Anyone else remember eWorld?


9 posted on 04/18/2015 2:47:50 PM PDT by gratefulwharffratt
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To: lee martell

Actually that Feedback section does get listened to and it does get results. One example of that was with iOS 8 when the Camera Roll was brought back by overwhelming “Feedback” from Apple Customers. It was announced at one of the previous Keynotes, saying that “we heard you!”

Feedback does work ... :-) ...

AND ... “Camera Roll” did come back in an iOS 8 update!


10 posted on 04/18/2015 2:47:52 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: EveningStar

Apple is run by perverted homosexual Nazis.


11 posted on 04/18/2015 3:05:46 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: EveningStar

the earliest Apple.com internet archive:

sadly....the internet archive wasnt founded until 1996....

http://web.archive.org/web/19961224121902/http://www.macsoftware.apple.com/


12 posted on 04/18/2015 3:08:07 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: EveningStar
Apple also had a clothing line back in the 80s (hahahahah):

And also an Apple Watch from the 90s

13 posted on 04/18/2015 3:48:16 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: gratefulwharffratt

I remember eWorld well. I published a weekly report in the developers support section.


14 posted on 04/18/2015 5:20:07 PM PDT by TopDog2 (Onward Christian soldiers)
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To: Dr. Sivana
That typeface (Garamond at 80% width) was used for LONG time in Apple advertising.

Yes indeed. Good catch.

15 posted on 04/18/2015 5:45:43 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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