The Revolution Began 10 Years Ago Today

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on May 06, 2008

Apple Matters notes that today is the 10th Anniversary of the unveiling of the original iMac. A great deal of the epic business turnaround tale that Apple has become began with the this teal-toned computer.

Remember if you will how radically different it seemed. The color scheme; the translucent plastic shell. The lack of a floppy drive. USB ports? And what was with that hockey-puck of a mouse? No matter. Apple fans scooped it up. The results were pretty good. By May of 1999, the iMac was the third best selling computer in the US.

I don’t know how many computers bearing the iMac name have been sold in these ten years. My spreadsheets tell me that Apple has sold more than 20 million desktop computers (iMacs, Power Macs, Mac Minis, Mac Pros) since 2000. I’d be willing to bet than more than half of them have been iMacs.

(Images courtesy LowendMac.com and NASDAQ.com)

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