The Original Macintosh: A Love Letter to the Dawn of Personal Computing
The Macintosh 128K arrived not as a prodigy but as a provocation: a small beige box that insisted computers be friendly, legible, and beautiful. This essay traces how its design and usability reshaped interfaces, empowered creators, and seeded the conventions we now take for granted-through technical firsts, cultural explosions, and the memories of the people who lived it.