Happy 35th birthday, Macintosh! Here are 7 wild photos from the 1984 release.

On this day in 1984, the computer that launched a thousand nerds was born.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook posted a happy birthday message on Twitter to the original Macintosh, which debuted 35 years ago today.

35 years ago, Macintosh said hello. It changed the way we think about computers and went on to change the world. We love the Mac, and today we’re proud that more people than ever are using it to follow their passions and create the futurepic.twitter.com/oUQDJN3jRU

— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) January 24, 2019

The year 1984 was a wild time, and not just because it was when Apple — whose later invention, the iPhone, would spark fears about the surveillance state imagined in the book 1984 — became a global phenomena. But also because there were bowties.  Read more...

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