{"id":4170,"date":"2013-08-15T23:16:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T23:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/the-original-imac-goes-on-sale\/"},"modified":"2013-08-15T23:16:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T23:16:38","slug":"the-original-imac-goes-on-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/the-original-imac-goes-on-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"The Original iMac Goes on Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-1974\">\n<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1975\" title=\"Bondi Blue iMac\" alt=\"Bondi Blue iMac\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/fa597__bondi-blue-imac-300x208.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" \/>August 15, 1998<\/p>\n<p>After three months of anticipation, the original iMac G3 goes on sale. The \u201cBondi Blue\u201d iMac became well-known for its colorful case, which bucked the industry norm beige. However, it is also known for being the first commercially successful computer to eliminate the use of legacy ports and the floppy drive. Widely criticized at the time for not including the older technologies, by only featuring USB ports for peripheral connectivity, the iMac helped popularize the emerging standard, even on Windows PCs. And when was the last time anyone saw a beige PC?<\/p>\n<p>I recall helping my uncle purchase one of the first iMacs at a CompUSA store on that first day. There were only 15 available and we were there early enough to grab one before they quickly sold out. Yes, I was totally jealous, but at least I got to help set it up <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/fa597__icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/fa597__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/08\/15\/the-original-imac-goes-on-sale\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 15, 1998 After three months of anticipation, the original iMac G3 goes on sale. The \u201cBondi Blue\u201d iMac became well-known for its colorful case, which bucked the industry norm beige. However, it is also known for being the first commercially successful computer to eliminate the use of legacy ports and the floppy drive. Widely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[758,681,1642,1078],"class_list":["post-4170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-goes","tag-imac","tag-original","tag-sale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}