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Apple celebrates 30 years
«Back to main storyPostcards from the Mac faithful
When CNET News.com asked readers to tell us how Apple's products have affected their lives, dozens of devotees from around the world wrote in with stories and pictures. Here's a sampling.
Grant Reighard of Perkasie, Pa., works on his PowerBook and listens to an iPod as greyhound Charisma keeps him company. This fall, Reighard heads to college, where he'll major in computer and information science. "My goal is to do an internship with Apple during the summer after sophomore year, and ultimately work there, creating the products that creative professionals--and creative individuals, too--want and need," he says.
Credit: Grant Reighard
Through the years
Time line: Three decades of Apple innovation The products, people and events that shaped the Mac maker.
Photos: Birth of the Mac interface
Gallery 1: Early fonts, graphics Historic Polaroids chart evolution of the user interface.
Gallery 2: Radical shift Soft-key based UI becomes mouse/windows-based.
Gallery 3: Lisa desktop Creating double-click, menu bars and more.
Gallery 4: Sketching out the Mac Before MacPaint there was LisaGraf.
Photos: Mac fans unite
Postcards from the faithful What Apple products mean to CNET News.com readers.
Cult of Mac Apple devotees have a style all their own.
Videos:
Wozniak on early Apples Company co-founder talks about building computers with cheap parts.
'It was like working at Disneyland' Former Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki on the company's early days.
Perspective:
Sizzle may be subjective, but Apple's definitely got it, says CNET News.com's Charles Cooper.
Poll
Credits
Editors: Leslie Katz, Scott Ard
Copy editors: Edward Moyer, Jennifer Guevin
Production: Bernie McGinn, Andrew Lottmann
Design: Michelle White, Ellen Ng
