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The Apple Ad That Changed the World
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The Apple Ad That Changed the World

January 22, 1984. Apple launches the first Macintosh computer, with a showstopping Super Bowl commercial. The ad itself was revolutionary, but the product it launched almost single-handedly brought computers into the mainstream, changing the world as w...

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January 20, 202018m 15s

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January 22, 1984. Apple launches the first Macintosh computer, with a showstopping Super Bowl commercial. The ad itself was revolutionary, but the product it launched almost single-handedly brought computers into the mainstream, changing the world as we know it.


Special thanks to Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, author and producer of the “Making the Macintosh” digital archive.


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