History of macOS

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Today, Apple has the largest and most diverse product ecosystem in history. From smartphones to tablets to smart watches, we’ve never seen Apple compete in so many industries simultaneously. But with all these new products, it’s easy to forget that Apple started as a computer company. And their Macintosh operating system, also known as macOS, has been around since 1984. So in this video, we’re going to explore the history of macOS, and find out how it’s grown and evolved over the past four decades.

[@amigdalos]

I missed that shining buttons , animations and glossy icons 😔. Snow Leopard up to Mountain Lion were the best OS

[@oteletampis7513]

Γιώργος Αμύγδαλος Γιώργος Φυστικής Γιώργος Φουντούκης Γιώργος Καρύδης

[@Ana.Forlin]

Mavericks also has that interface.

[@tarfact]

nothing to want to lick anymore :(

[@woilah794]

Lmao my mom still has mountain lion on her macbook air 2013 because it doesnt have any space xD

[@ARBUZIK.dudkin]

Okay grandpa

[@CybernerdShua]

As someone who has only ever used windows and Linux, this is a huge learning opportunity.

[@megabyte112]

ahh, a fellow linux user!

[@CybernerdShua]

@@megabyte112 I see you are a person of culture as well.

[@skyler_youtubee]

Im A Windows User

[@tcp124]

I use mac and windows.... Cool person124 was the imposter

[@elgeorge437]

I use all three... including chromeOS if you consider that (because of school) 🤣 but yeah.. I personally like the simplicity and privacy of MacOS, the privacy of Linux and the fact that it’s so niche and has a nice community, and I like windows for straightfoward more complex operations and gaming

[@MrCooper83]

The oldest MacOS I have ever used was Tiger on a G3 iMac. Great video, I really liked the Snow Leopard. Its been 11 years... i absolutely love Apple’s OS.

[@jadinhtvt6870]

What about lion

[@MrCooper83]

@@jadinhtvt6870 Lion came out after Snow Leopard. Im not sure but i think that was in 2011. The first OS version which was only available from the AppStore. I don't remember too much as it was a long time ago. I think the auto save was introduced in Lion, but I'm not entirely sure. That was a great feature. I think Craig Federighi had some `windows` jokes with his shaking hand on the magic mouse. I think that was the WWDS in 2011 when he was super nervous. :)

[@sneakyfox4651]

@@jadinhtvt6870 I had Lion running on the first Mac Pro, and that was an unhappy mariage. Very, very unstable, but I can't tell if it was the OS or the chimera hardware (both 32 and 64 bit parts). Luckily, it was just used as a guest PC for my summer guests and for watching DVDs on a larger screen than my 13'' MBP. (I've never had a TV). As a courtesy I installed Google Chrome for one of the guest who was used to that interface. Took the whole machine down so hard I had to re-format the harddrive and re-install Lion after trying every trick in the book to recover. No chance.

[@realjameskii]

the oldest i think i used was el capitan, i still am on el capitan

[@MattExzy]

I feel so decrepit.. the oldest Mac OS I used was System 7, for donkey's years as a kid. Boy-howdy, was 8 ever good after that ordeal.

[@josiahstearns9615]

I love these history videos where you talk through everything and add interesting facts. The other History videos with the animations are, no doubt, easier to compile. But I enjoy learning about the “behind the scenes” events often more than just the list of specs.

[@LeeStewart]

In 1994, I was brought into a room full of the original Macintoshes. I sat down and without any instruction, I began using it and the applications. Prior to this, I'd never used a mouse before, but it was all so intuitive. Eighteen years later, I switched from Windows to Mac (Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion) and it felt so familiar and intuitive. It's amazing how far macOS has evolved since 2012 and how relevant it is still is, despite the emergence of mobile devices like iPhone and iPad. So far, they've come very close to the PC experience, but have just fallen short.

[@uraworld6247]

is not supposed to be the same

[@flappospammo]

I hate iOS and love macOS

[@JonathonV]

Nerd tip: If you want to sound really legit, pronounce “SCSI” like “scuzzy”.

[@davesauro2491]

Also its probably a good idea to produce ars TECHNICA and John SiracusA properly.

[@TexasCat99]

After 30+ years... never ever heard it as S C S I... LOL!! yeah, that was bad.

[@pscraft1337]

Also gooey instead of G.U.I

[@neocloudy88]

@@pscraft1337 it’s GUI not gooey I’m fucking cringing right now :(

[@PerfectPilot]

@@AnimationByDylan lol

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

6:19 MacOS 9 also added large-file APIs, allowing you to create and access files larger than 4GB or so.

[@flavoursofsound]

This was a massive nostalgia trip for me. Technically been using Macs since System 6.0 on my parents’ Macintosh SE. However I bought my first Mac in 2005, an iBook G4 running OS X Tiger. I bought it for £600, though had I bought Apple stock instead, it would be worth £53,734 today.

[@indyn_t]

macOS is one of the most refined OSs out there, it feels really nice to use and it was a revolutionary product back in the day

[@Baer9471]

Well I don’t care if you are Communist spy

[@Baer9471]

Bcoz you’re not

[@kingjay239]

Definitely agree, as someone that had been using Windows since I was like 9 years old, and finally switching over to MacOS in 2014, I never wanted a windows pc again.

[@indyn_t]

@@kingjay239 I kindof was the other way around, my early life was full of Apple products, then I was forced to switch to Windows for compatibility’s sake and I didn’t really like it. I still hope macOS gets the same compatibility as Windows, especially with them now “dominating” the market with the M1 chip.

[@indyn_t]

@@Baer9471 Well I never claimed so

[@muticere]

I jumped on the Mac bandwagon back in 2003 and am still on it. My first Mac was an iBook, it was a nice little machine until the display died after about a year. Undeterred, I got one of the first aluminum unibody MacBooks in 2008. Really enjoyed that computer. Wish I still had it, made the mistake of selling it to buy a gaming rig. Should have held onto it, it probably would still work like a champ.

[@TheMetalMag]

As an apple fan I can only thank you for this great video bringing some more details , I started to use mac in 95 before I never used a computer and felt in love will never change!

[@PromotingTheBeat]

Aqua

[@notsniped]

macOS 13 in 2021: Were introducing themes in iOS, iPadOS and macOS. Themes included are the normal theme and the Aqua theme.

[@dieguito0512]

@@notsniped *hah i wish*

[@chocoloco9985]

Commercial break at 6:34, regular programming resumes at 7:30

[@AH-yg2dj]

After watching the thumbnail, all I can say is finder has become happier over the years

[@shai.p]

We are happy for our boy Finder for finding happiness :)

[@craigjensen6853]

Apple user here, since 1987. I _JUST_ now noticed the side profile of the original Mac (or Mac Plus) at 3:08 and how the angle and bottom notch near the keyboard matches the "nose" profile in the MacOS logo. I bet most people have seen that for decades. I'm an idiot. So really the MacOS logo is like 2 original Macs with one turned 90 degrees in front of the other one. Absolutely brilliant. They are just missing the eye but they could have put the speakers in the side case for them. Missed opportunity.

[@thatnishcray]

Not to be 'that guy', but I'm sure you'd appreciate the tip: it's actually pronounced 'ars' not A-R-S : Ars Technica means 'the art of technology' in Latin.

[@NDakota79]

haha arse!

[@grewdpastor]

@@NDakota79 Then you pronounce it the wrong way. It is with a sharp, somewhat long S.

[@Stormy2142]

came here to say this

[@ireadysucks3026]

@@grewdpastor wait is it like your saying the letter r but with a s at the end

[@Lollolololpll]

Glad you brought this up! I thought I was going crazy by thinking I was saying it wrong :)

[@sibaweihiquality1917]

I have a MacBook Pro 13" and I love it. Im obsessed

[@elgeorge437]

I just got a new MacBook Air after selling my 2018 MacBook Pro since I barely used the pro and I just needed something cheaper but with macOS

[@thechannelforyouandme9376]

ITS A DOWGRADE. THEY REMOVED ALL THE PORTS AND MAKE IT WAKER

[@fatlindtv2098]

SHITbook pro

[@Bananaman-hk6qw]

@@fatlindtv2098 lol

[@AlejandroKar98k]

i just got my fist macbook pro and...i hate it, i dont know what the hell i was thinking when i get this piece of trash

[@donteven4673]

It's amazing to see how far MacOS went. But a request Greg, a chatter about iphone 12 pleaseeeeeeeeee

[@MarcosRavena]

Tiger was the first macOS I used. As a Windows user at that time, it was a little strange how the applications windows worked, the shortcuts and the keys at all. But, guess who... Today I can't imagine a single Day working with Windows again. Because of the UI, stability etc. It took just one or two weeks to get used to work with macOS. Thanks Apple. Thanks for this lesson Greg!

[@nwh5027]

Y’all are saying first, but it’s much harder to be last 😆

[@kiran.-]

What

[@nyandwielijah]

Yep you can never be last to comment

[@alejandroooow]

@@nyandwielijah you can tho

[@nyandwielijah]

@@alejandroooow well maybe Until a video gets another comment

[@redtro_1]

overused comment lol

[@VexifyGaming]

Who else thinks Greg is a legend

[@danbh84]

He’s very good

[@A50-s6l]

ME!

[@donteven4673]

ye hes the best in explaining apple. I repeat. THE BEST

[@AdityaS256]

@@donteven4673 Yes

[@raagamparmar179]

Mee!

[@aytviewer2421]

Wow. What a trip down memory lane for me. Though, I really stopped using Mac OS X full time after Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) was released. And you are correct --Snow Leopard was an AWESOME OS. It was rock stable, fast, and the workspaces were a highly useable grid (rather than the linear layout introduced with Lion). I was super productive in Snow Leopard. But after Lion eliminated or changed the way I was used to working, I went ahead and ended up loading Windows 7 on my primary Mac at the time and got back to work. These days, I find Ubuntu Mate to be a great coding working environment, but still live in Windows 10 about a 25-30% of the time as well. I used Macs from the late 1980s till Lion drove me away. Thanks for the nostalgia!

[@stevenvallarsa1765]

What an incredible stroll down memory lane. I've been a Mac user since 1992 with the Mac Plus running System 6 in the graphics lab of Cambrian College of Applied Arts and Technology in Sudbury, Ontario, where I was taking graphic design. I just purchased a new MacBook Pro 14" running Sonoma, my first non-refurbished Mac since the purchase of a new PowerMac G4 back in 2000. It's nice to see where features were introduced and came of age over the past 30+ years.

[@VELI-Productions]

Man, Leopard is still my favorite version of MacOS to this day.

[@PobanzGamerYT]

Apple: launches new operating system Greg/apple explained: Straight after the launch makes new video about Mac OS

[@ajrhodes3262]

Did you know that Safari was based on a Linux based browser called Konqeror?? I read it in a book by a former Apple software developer. It was actually really interesting because macOS is based on BSD, an old Unix based system. Linux is also based on the philosophy of Unix. I think that is really cool. Well, thanks for an amazing video!!

[@cristianpopescu7270]

This is true because are many similarities between macos and linux distributions

[@nopebro2471]

Konqueror is still maintained as part of KDE

[@ajrhodes3262]

@@nopebro2471 it’s not as supported by most websites these days due to everyone preferring chrome

[@newblue3256]

what book? that sounds interesting

[@13mschen]

The pronunciation of Ars Technica's John Siracusa at 8:28 sent me lol You can't expect any better from someone who hasn't heard his podcasts, but it's still hilarious. Great video :)

[@gamerzer0004]

Another Amazing Video by AE... Love all your videos... Thanks Greg!!!

[@rspaced]

Oldest MacOS I used was OSX Mavericks. I have a strong nostalgia for it as my mum’s 2014 MacBook Air ran it before I inherited it and installed Catalina. The skeuomorphism just hits me hard

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

3:50 You forgot to mention System 4.2/Finder 6.0, which was the first version to support MultiFinder. This let you use all the extra RAM to run multiple applications at once. This may have derived from a project Andy Hertzfeld had been working on in his own time, called “Servant”. This was an advance on his earlier (and very popular) “Switcher” offering in letting windows from different apps coexisting on the same screen, instead of just one app at a time taking over the whole screen.

[@heidirichter]

There was a lot that wasn't mentioned from the pre OS X days that I feel should have been included in a video titled "History of macOS"

[@XMattingly]

Expose absolutely revolutionized window management and multitasking. I previously spent years double-clicking window shade over and over and over and over and over, hundreds of times every day... after Expose, my productivity _took off like a rocket._ 🚀

[@bigmancozmo]

Me: *i can't believe i used to use MacOS Mavericks until like October when i figured out how to update it.*

[@DavidMorseMusic]

I'll never forget using my parents G4 iMac. Those older OS versions seemed so futuristic back then.

[@PumperWolf]

I waited so long for this video, thanks

[@Morecreativemind]

0:04 mean While samsung Having Tvs , washing machines , Phones , tablets , laptops And more.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

Also 1994 saw the introduction of the first Power Macs, with a special (interim) System version 7.1.2 to support them.

[@FilCanJay]

Hope you keep updating this video for newer versions of the OS. This is great.

[@origamimambo545]

Wow, this OS history was like a history of my professional computing life.

[@claudiatje85]

I haven't used Macs since 2008-2009, but those Tiger screenshots made me nostalgic and press the middle button to load my widgets. Good times.

[@jake_lacroix5417]

I barely use my Mac anymore I switch for my iPad Pro w/ magic keyboard to my main laptop. Its perfect

[@CF542]

I still miss Snow Leopard...

[@GuillermoPaulman]

I still have it installed on second partition of my disk. The main partition runs Mojave. Snow Leopard is great and beautiful. Still a useful OS today except for few websites that won't work on it. I actually use SL to watch movies and play older games.

[@grosado8906]

I love this channel sooo much great quality vids.

[@Nathan15038]

Man, just recently I turned on or booted up three of my old Macs, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and iMac. All three of these I bought back in 2010 and when I first turned them on, they were running the highest high Sierra except for one. One of them ran Mac OS X lion, which was a throwback. But I eventually updated that one to High Sierra and my MacBook Pro to macOS Catalina with a patcher. But surprisingly, they still run and have a use the iMac I use as a TV or to stream KZbin the MacBook Pro. I run it as a security camera computer and the MacBook Air. I have a sitting around but every once in a while I would use it. I never traded in any Macs because they were not worth it. I also believe that the fact that I upgraded all of those Mac to the eye aspect when I bought it from 2010 that it still runs almost 15 years later. But I do currently own a Mac mini from 2018 and a MacBook Air 2020, which I specked out too. But just recently I’ve actually bought a new 2023 MacBook Pro 16in with a M3 max 40 Core GPU chip. I also loaded it with 128 GB of RAM and a 4TB of storage. This came out to like six grand, but Apple financing is helping me and I personally love it and think this will also last me another 15 years. This is probably overkill for even 10 years or 15 years, but I wanted to match the specs of my PC.😅

[@vidulseneviratne2514]

i have learnt so much from this channel that i should become the ihistorian lol

[@lghammer778]

Wow, that was really fun to watch! Thank you for posting this 😃

[@aukiio]

6:33 Holy shit that transition to the sponsor really makes me want to try out Squarespace lol Good one Greg 😂😂

[@tarfact]

amazing video just updated from 10.9 to 10.14 the other day

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

4:02 Those are disks for System 7.5, from about a decade later.

[@aytviewer2421]

Yep. Plus It's funny that 7.5 was shown because that was an awefully buggy version of Mac OS. Luckily, they fixed it all up in 7.6.1 and that was solid until Mac OS 8 shipped.

[@ArduinoTurkBatu]

3:54 Wow we are have a colored Macintosh!! Cool for old times!!!

[@nachovyofficial]

12:52 *Documents* Folder -- KB Last modified Mar 24, 2010 Exactly 2 years before I was born!

[@nachovyofficial]

@@crillexz7436 OK I’ve said too much bye

[@crillexz7436]

@@nachovyofficial oof

[@dieguito0512]

so, you're 9 years old. you should be on youtube kids

[@omerarfan]

@@dieguito0512 yt kids is a piece of junk why use it

[@omerarfan]

@@dieguito0512 its only for 4-6 years olds

[@muticere]

Me before watching this: Snow Leopard was my favorite, idk why. It was a while ago, I just remember it being something special. Me after finishing: oh okay lol everyone loved that one, it really was great. I do remember going to the Apple Store and buying a copy of Snow Leopard and that being the last time I had to buy an upgrade. Sure wish Windows would just let you have their upgrades...

[@Willy48420]

I had my grandparents old iMac for a while. Good ol ‘floating screen’ iMac

[@vctrsigma]

Still considered a pretty good day-to-day design for a desktop with internal expandability being the main limitation.

[@Willy48420]

@@vctrsigma too bad I had it way after it’s time. My cousin and I tried to update software to a recent-ish version of OS X but it had such a limited RAM we couldn’t make the jump of OS

[@aytviewer2421]

@@Willy48420 Are you talking about the iMac with a white dome base and the floating attached LCD screen? That thing had a G4 processor in it. You could load it up with quite a bit of RAM (for the time). I think the last version of Mac OS X you could have installed on that was 10.4 (Tiger). After that version, you needed a Mac with an Intel Core processor.

[@Willy48420]

@@aytviewer2421 yup that’s the one. We were trying to run snow leopard I think for iPod nano 4&5 so we needed a more current version of iTunes

[@stephanebosch9963]

Nice and very interesting, a good trip back in my childhood with this video. Just a precision: High Sierra also introduced APFS disk format which was a huge change (killing all non-SSD drives). Thanks for the nostalgia :D

[@schirombaseball95]

What's the background music?

[@144wychwood]

MAN! those were the days. I remember lining up outside local Mac dealer to buy OS8 and OS9. I also got OS X Public Beta software. Yes, early versions of OSX were brutally slow. Wish I held on to them just for keepsakes. Always loved simple 2d GUI of System 7. It would be could cool if they brought back some looks in future version of MacOS.

[@AdmiralBison]

Did you recognize the "Hello" font from last weeks Apple Spring loaded event? It was exactly the same style as the first Mac machine "hello" Nearing Macs 40th anniversary, you never know, some aesthetics, wallpapers and theme throwbacks could happen to celebrate.

[@Tuberex]

12:29 why are u not talking about the fact that apple made a time machine and released it to the public

[@theKeshaWarrior]

The Lisa was before the Macintosh and even though there was System Software 1 for the Mac they already had it specifically named just like Lisa OS.

[@nevhoffman]

Absolutely love your channel man and you put out some amazing content. As a regular watcher/subscriber can I respectfully request that background music going forward is either something different occasionally and/or forgone altogether? This track is just getting old imo and it's often too loud.

[@4kleidisc]

im not even gonnalie that sponsor transition was smooth af

[@WeirdMemes]

0:01 Xiaomi be like: really?

[@juanmico4085]

Boy what a trip from my youth to today.... I joined in the party in the mid 90's with a Performa 6200 running System 7.5 (I think). Thanks for this!

[@notafanboy250]

You and me both. First computer I ever had was a Performa 6290CD with System 7.5.1 just like you.

[@nickbrown1165]

I have never used Mac OS, but oki. Still love the video BTW. ❤️

[@jackmeoff6877]

Same 😁

[@mr.tutorial7267]

Boo windows users

[@HowieIsaacks]

Actually the Lisa was Apple’s first GUI based computer. It didn’t sell well, but it was still the first. The Xerox Star was released 3 years before Macintosh. Xerox got their product to market before Apple. I would like to see a video that discusses the orgins of Mac OS X. It all started with NeXT. OS X was a revamp of NeXTSTEP. Today all of Apple’s operating systems have their roots in the work done at NeXT. Most Apple users have no idea that manh of the technologies running their devices were created over 30 years ago.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

4:49 Before System 7, there was quite a lot of work happening in the 6.0.x series. For example, 6.0.7 backported the Mac II Sound Manager API to lesser Mac models. Also TrueType was made available as a drop-in extension for ≥6.0.5 users who couldn’t upgrade to 7.0.

[@kadenlg7631]

The first video I watch with KZbin premium has a square space ad

[@maryamforoughi1744]

2000 was the best year of music Change. My. Mind. 7:56 I LOVE HEARING 2000!!!!!

[@kimiOfDieLinke]

The reason for the slow UI of early OS X is more related to the fact, that it uses "Display PDF" rendering technique, derived from "Display PostScript" of the NeXT Computer is based on (which was infamous for the incredible display quality while being a slow UI ;) So basically anything on the screen is a PDF document. With Quarz Core I think in 10.4 Apple build a much quicker rendering engine and the UI became much faster (If I understand that correctly, it uses calculation power of the graphics chips). This is the reason why even today the display quality of macOS is still higher than most other computer Systems.

[@gamerzer0004]

I think Catalina is one of the "not so good" version of MacOS

[@LambdaMiscellaneous]

Yeah

[@braingaming5569]

its actually not so bad

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

I think both Apple’s and Microsoft’s OSes are getting so complicated that every attempt to fix one bug just creates another one.

[@braingaming5569]

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 your right, same like minecraft

[@faisalalmutairi1162]

Why?

[@KidNamedCullen]

I remember when High Sierra was the latest release. I can't believe so much has changed with macOS since then, leading up to macOS Sonoma in 2023.

[@v12ts.gaming]

7:29 if you want to skip paid promotion

[@novastar3990]

That was a smooth transition to an ad.

[@grosado8906]

that paid promotion was smooth

[@chickeninabox]

You don't know anything. G. you don't know anything. I will do everything. So in the 1990's the American Military invented the Internet and it soon became public. They owned the domains ".com", ".net" and ".org". They costed $8-13 Then there was a new organization that assigned every country a 2 letter code. The cost was made by the country. Now I have told you about domains. Yes they are called domains. You have a Dynamic IP Address. Which changes and isn't reliable because it changes. It makes it possible to connect to the internet otherwise it would be one person at a time. You need a Static IP Address. If you type ""6.6.6.6" in you browser it will bring you to nothing. Search it in an engine and you would see that it's somewhere in America. Your IP Address will change and will bring you somewhere else. Programming isn't hard It is an Advertisement. You will have to find a good place which is very easy. Don't spend half of your time in H.T.M.L. use that ii C.S.S. because you will need to learn all the properties. I hate Javascript. I am suspicious of React because Jens at Mojang said "Facebook creeps me out.". I don't know of PHP and it looks like an Email List. For Sql you have Microsoft Access. There is a thing called a C.M.S. It is 40mb bloatware that slowly rises to 1gb. I am trying to make a Off Site C.M.S. but I would have to break all of security. Most W.Y.S.I.W.Y.G. editors don't have advanced features to make a real website. Dreamweaver is close but you still have to code. I'm really good at this. I have written way more than this for average.

[@chickeninabox]

@Mr RandomIt's about the sponsor and why you shouldn't get it.

[@grosado8906]

@@chickeninabox bruh what? Take your useless info somewhere else

[@paco3523]

You mean the whole video? 😉

[@encycl07pedia-]

@@grosado8906 He's telling the truth. You are just too ignorant and programmed to see it, sheep! ;)

[@idkwhothisbe]

The fact that some pirate groups REFUSED to re-distribute copies of Mac OS 8 to help Apple really warms my heart.

[@BIGwillTHEGAME]

KZbin Vanced automatically skip his smooth transitions into sponsorship.

[@rubes3927]

Watching this on my MacBook, with my iPhone and two iPads and spare MacBook sitting on my desk across the room lol.

[@martymclean3763]

8:00 Who tf pronounces Aqua like that?? 😂

[@Zahraakzaidi]

Thats- thats how a lot of people pronounce it like me but it depends on your accenr or where you live ig

[@fedr39]

Snow Leopard was amazing and still their best MacOS in my opinion.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

3:48 Huh? They were *all* Motorola processors.

[@alexvar10]

Right, I think he meant the first Mac with a 68020 processor (previous models used a 68000)

[@EvanMMD3939]

Me: clicks on a video about Mac PCs KZbin: here is a windows 10 ad for you.

[@nwh5027]

Mac OS or Windows? Reply for Mac and like for Windows 😆 Edit - thx for all the likes, my high is 70

[@danbh84]

Macos lol

[@nwh5027]

@@danbh84 cool Mac squad 😎

[@brendas.8520]

Mac

[@gej36138]

Mac

[@CybernerdShua]

Linux

[@xanderrodriguez6621]

That squarespace transition 10/10

[@jetlaw_1]

“A - R - S Technica’s John SyracusE...” Oof. Even worse than when he spelled out SCSI

[@encycl07pedia-]

The narrator (and presumably uploader) is a clod.

[@hadilaptop]

Brings back lost of nostalgic memories. The video is completely right about the first version of Mac OS being slow. After upgrading the Mac OS 9 on my black Powerbook G3 to Mac OS X, it became incredibly slow, to the point of being unusable! But I loved the new OS so much that instead of downgrading back to Mac OS 9, I went out and bought a new Titanium PowerBook G4. Was worth the enhanced user experience.

[@EverbladesECHLHockey]

I’m a Greg legend

[@mattreedah]

I started with system 7.5 on a Performa 550. My next Mac was my favorite computer running my favorite OS - a 12” G4 PowerBook running 10.4 Tiger. I no longer have it, but I still have a working iMac G4 running it!

[@jackdey9153]

Stop randomly put sponsors in the middle of the video. Just put it at the end of the video like everyone does.

[@subhanjawad4666]

👍🏻

[@Mr.BrownsBasement]

I'm going to be technical and picky when you say the Mac OS has been around since 1984: The original Mac OS was very close to the Apple Lisa's operating system which came out almost a year before the Macintosh 128K. The Lisa came out in early 1983 along with its operating system, Lisa OS. They were so closely intertwined that the Apple Lisa was later renamed the Macintosh XL.With regard to "SCSI" (Small Computer System Interface), no one ever called it "S" "C" "S" "I", it was pronounced "Scuzzy" and allowed up to 7 peripherals (plus a host for a total of 8 devices) to be daisy-chained together. When discussing the change in the later versions of MacOS, you should mention why the look & feel was changed, i.e., shift away from the use of 3D icons and skeuomorphs. Finally, with each major architectural change (e.g., from Motorola processors to PowerPC, from PowerPC to Intel, from 32-bit Intel applications to 64-bit Intel applications, and now Intel to Apple Silicon), Apple's support for earlier hardware was relatively short-lived. Apple pushed users to upgrade older hardware (i.e., buy new) even if it was perfectly useful.

[@theoriginals592]

One of the first 100 views Thanks for the like Thanks for 4 likes Thanks for 5 likes Wow

[@alisonsmith4436]

Thank you so much for your videos as always you do an excellent job 😃😃

[@WarriorsPhoto]

Good video as always Greg. I enjoyed it a lot. (:

[@driver288]

Ah! Internet explorer and Outlook express on macOS 8 😁

[@1912RamblerFan01]

The first version of Mac OS I used was ~10.6, but the first I used on a daily basis after switching to a Mac was 10.10 "Yosemite." The oldest version of Mac OS I've used is Macintosh System 6.0.7.

[@hondaj3521]

Lmao, I loved your square space sales pitch. So relevant, you sell out.

[@ciach0_]

0:52 No. The first commercial Apple computer that featured a GUI was the Lisa. Which was a failure otherwise.

[@muzocan]

Thank you for these videos! Two things: Pronunciations for SCSI - Skuz-ee and GUI - Goo-ee

[@theKeshaWarrior]

SCSI is also said as "scuzzy" not as individual letters.

[@iampedro513]

surprised that Finder didn’t get oversimplified, but changed in a better way

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

5:51 MacOS 8.5 was the one that added the theming engine, and some alternative themes were made available in the betas. These were all dropped before final release, but they did still work if you installed them.

[@chrisray9653]

MacOS and the iOS family share the same kernel (the invisible part of an operating system), but the biggest design principle of iOS from Steve Jobs himself is that the mobile operating system should never have a dedicated file manager (Finder in MacOS). Each app would be responsible for file management appropriate for itself. That changes the focus of development tremendously.

[@rjaymolina]

Great video! Mavericks was my first venture into macOS. I remember thinking how nice everything was. Nothing felt like bloatware - everything was clean. I ended up (for better or worse) relying on all the first party apps through iCloud. Still going strong today on Sonoma