Category: history

AT&T- Pissing Off Customers since 1879?

AT&T seems large now, but one century ago it was worth the equivalent of $300 billion (2012 dollars). That would have made it the third largest company in the world today. Also, although they may seem sort of complacent now, they actually did do some great things in the past (the title was a joke). The US’s largest telecom company has had quite the fascinating history...

The Apple store Before “The Apple Store”

If you ever feel like doubting how radically different the Apple Store was from any store in the industry at its’ inception, take a look at this old photo I found of the original Apple Store from the mid ’90s. Back then any old joe could walk in to their company store in their headquarters and buy stuff. The Original Apple store as listed...

Apple Releases Television Mac!

This title may be a little misleading but it’s true. Did you know that in 1993 Apple released a Combo Mac/Television. It was only on sale for five months. Believe it or not it worked fine. It weighed 40 pounds (the current Imac weighs 20). Only 10,000 were made. So why did it fail? You couldn’t watch TV while using the computer so if...