Happy Birthday, Apple Macintosh!

Original 1984 Macintosh desktop (image: Wikipedia)On January 22, 1984 during the Super Bowl, Apple ran their famous “1984” commercial. The voice-over intoned:
Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fle