17 min

The Apple Ad That Changed the World HISTORY This Week

    • History

January 22, 1984. Apple launches the first Macintosh computer, with a showstopping Super Bowl commercial. The ad itself was revolutionary, but the product it launched almost single-handedly brought computers into the mainstream, changing the world as we know it.
Special thanks to Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, author and producer of the “Making the Macintosh” digital archive.
To our listeners, thank you for subscribing to History This Week. We want to hear your feedback: https://bit.ly/3a4FGqJ

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

January 22, 1984. Apple launches the first Macintosh computer, with a showstopping Super Bowl commercial. The ad itself was revolutionary, but the product it launched almost single-handedly brought computers into the mainstream, changing the world as we know it.
Special thanks to Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, author and producer of the “Making the Macintosh” digital archive.
To our listeners, thank you for subscribing to History This Week. We want to hear your feedback: https://bit.ly/3a4FGqJ

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

17 min

Top Podcasts In History

The Rest Is History
Goalhanger Podcasts
American Scandal
Wondery
Throughline
NPR
You're Wrong About
Sarah Marshall
The Curious History of Your Home
NOISER
American History Tellers
Wondery

More by HISTORY

The Food That Built America
The HISTORY® Channel
HISTORY This Week
The HISTORY® Channel
Not What You Thought You Knew
HISTORY
Letters of Love in WW2
Sky HISTORY