Birthday Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Happy 34th birthday, Apple!

by Steven Sande (Apr 1st, 2010)

It's hard to believe, but Apple has been around for 34 years today. On April 1, 1976, Apple Computer, Inc. was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. The company had an amazing childhood (Apple II, Mac), an awkward adolescence where it nearly killed itself with a broad, unfocused product line ...

Happy birthday! Mac OS X turns 9

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 24th, 2010)

It was nine years ago today that Mac OS X 10.0 was born -- or became available to the general public anyway. On September 13, 2000 Apple released a public beta called "Kodiak" (think of this as OS X's conception). On March 24, 2001 Apple effectively ditched OS 9 for the current generation OS that ...

Steve Jobs turns 55

by Steven Sande (Feb 24th, 2010)

It's February 24, 2010, which means that Steve Jobs has his 55th birthday today. Not many people get to start up a company and then develop several completely new markets during their lives. Steve Jobs has been intimately involved with popularizing a number of devices during his lifetime: the ...

Happy 26th Birthday, Mac!

by Steven Sande (Jan 24th, 2010)

Despite all odds, the Mac has survived to its 26th birthday. On January 24th, 1984, Steve Jobs pulled a 128K Mac out of its case in front of a crowd of reporters, turned it on, and let the computer introduce itself to the world. The rest, as they say, is history. We've seen our favorite ...

Two years with the iPhone

by Tim Wasson (Jun 29th, 2009)

On June 29, 2007, Apple and AT&T released the iPhone for $600 to crowded stores throughout the United States. A whole lot has changed in the iPhone-world in just 2 short years. The 1.0 software is just a distant memory, and looking back I'm a little surprised how limited the original iPhone was ...

Happy Birthday, Steve!

by Steven Sande (Feb 24th, 2009)

Today is the 54th birthday of Steven Paul Jobs. Please join all of us here at TUAW in wishing Mr. Jobs a very happy birthday! In fact, if you'd like to make a short movie of yourself or a group sending your birthday wishes to Jobs, post it on the Web and leave us a comment below with a link to the ...

Happy 25th Birthday, Mac!

by Steven Sande (Jan 24th, 2009)

All of the bloggers at TUAW write about Apple and Apple products for one reason: we love Apple products. For most of us, our first Apple was a Mac (although some of us are indeed old enough to have owned the Apple II). 25 years ago today, Steven P. Jobs stood in front of a packed house and had a ...

25 Years of Macintosh in photos

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jan 24th, 2009)

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Happy 7th Birthday, iPod!

by Cory Bohon (Oct 23rd, 2008)

It's hard to believe that 7 years have passed since Steve took the stage and introduced our friend, the iPod. Over the past few years, the iPod has gone from new guy on the block to "funnest" guy on the block. While the basic design hasn't changed much (for the Classic model at least), the features ...

Happy Birthday and Best Wedding Wishes, Woz!

by Steven Sande (Aug 9th, 2008)

A very happy birthday to Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak, the co-founder of the company we all know and love. No comments about "third founder" Ron Wayne, please. Woz will be 58 on Monday, the 11th, but we wanted to give you the scoop on some other things going on in his life right now, so we're running ...

Happy Birthday Steve!

by Nik Fletcher (Feb 24th, 2008)

We've been sipping green tea in celebration here at TUAW HQ. Why? In honour of one Steven Paul Jobs, no less, for today just happens to be everyone's favourite CEO's 53rd birthday. With 10 hugely successful years in the modern-era Apple saddle, let's hope there's many, many more of those to come. ...

Mac Automation: Birthday greetings

by Cory Bohon (Feb 13th, 2008)

I am sure that everyone has forgotten other peoples birthday's from time-to-time (*raises hand*). Luckily, with Mac OS X's built-in Address Book and Automator, you can automate the remembering and sending of greeting cards by e-mail -- thus eliminating the awkwardness of forgetting. In this how-to I ...

Blast from the Past: Happy 6th Birthday OS X

by Mat Lu (Mar 24th, 2007)

It's hard to believe, but today marks the 6th birthday for Mac OS X, at least as measured from when OS X 10.0 (Cheetah) first went on sale at retail outlets on March 24, 2001. Apple's original press release is still online, and is the source of some mild amusement. It heralds "amazing new ...

My first iPod didn't have a halo back then

by David Chartier (Oct 23rd, 2006)

In light of the iPod's 5th birthday, I figured it would be fun to join Scott in some reminiscing about the early days of my first little white music player. I remember seeing them when the 10 and 20GB models completed the 1st/2nd gen lineup, and I knew that thing would rock my world. I had already ...

3 years ago today, 1 million iTunes Music Store downloads

by Scott McNulty (May 5th, 2006)

A few days ago we wished the iTunes Music Store a happy third birthday. Ah, three years of downloading and paying for music legally. Whodathunk it? Our friends at Apple Matters let us know that 3 years ago today the Mac only iTunes Music Store hit the million download mark. I'm thinking that ...