On this day in 1998 Apple unveiled their latest desktop computer, the original iMac. Apple Computer Inc.’s then Interim Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs introduced the iMac at the Flint Center Theater in Cupertino, California, the same place where the first Mac was unveiled in 1984. The new iMac was equipped with Apple’s G3 233-MHz processor, a 15-inch display and a 33.6 kilobits-per-second modem. It also had a unique-looking, somewhat egg-shaped case with a signature blue color, which later led to it being nicknamed the “Bondi Blue”. The iMac was a desktop computer directed towards the personal computer consumers, with Jobs dubbing it as “the internet-age computer for the rest of us.”
The actual release of the iMac was scheduled in August of that same year, but before its release Apple had already garnered a whopping 150,000 orders. This marked the beginning of Apple’s Renaissance, as well as their affinity to adding the letter “i” on just about all of their products.