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Aaron Thompson of Crystal Lake, Ill., uses Apple's iChat AV and a pair of iSight cameras to keep in touch with his dad, who lives in Pennsylvania. "I feel like I'm right there with him...as opposed to only hearing his garbled voice through a telephone," the 18-year-old Thompson says.
Credit: Aaron Thompson
Time line: Three decades of Apple innovation The products, people and events that shaped the Mac maker.
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.
Postcards from the faithful What Apple products mean to CNET News.com readers.
Cult of Mac Apple devotees have a style all their own.
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.
Sizzle may be subjective, but Apple's definitely got it, says CNET News.com's Charles Cooper.
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