Steve Jobs knocked their socks off (if in fact “they” were wearing socks) when, as Megan Garber of the Atlantic writes:
Thirty years ago today, [he] did something he would go on to do many times over: He strode onto a stage and introduced the public to a product that would do its damnedest to dent the universe.
The product was, of course, the Mac which had been the star of a memorable television ad that appeared during the television broadcast of the super Bowl a couple of days earlier. The year was 1984 and the ad sold the notion that this little computer was more powerful than Big Brother. It was the technology of personal freedom and liberation.
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