Many people first contact Apple with the iPod, An MP3 player released in October 2001 that changed the way people listen to music and had several updates over the years. Or maybe there was the iPhone, which was released by its first model in October 2007. It was also possible that the lucky one was the iPad, the tablet was introduced in 2010.
These products were announced during the early years of the new millennium, and are among the most representative of the brand. But the fact is that Apple's history goes back a long time, to its founding in 1976, 44 years ago. We're talking about a time when the Internet did not exist and information was being controlled in some way. This is whyThe (Unofficial) Apple Archive& # 39; s a project worth noting.
Update Apple's history in a visual way
Sam Henri Gold is the guy in charge of this feat. IOS Nighthawk Twitter Client Creator, his first product of the apple bite was a 2005 iPod nano, which was a gift for her fourth birthday (9to5Mac).
The whole project started when the AllAppleAds YouTube channel was removed in April 2017. I was in Massachusetts at the time, and I started searching YouTube for "apple commercial 1976) to download the downloads, and save the videos to the iCloud Drive folder. -but when I started the YouTube channel I think it lasted six days before it was deleted without trace If I had stayed on YouTube, I think I would have ignored this file a lot more than I did.
As Gold explains, when you try to search a YouTube channel we find that it doesn't exist. In June 2019, he opened the beta for archives Google Drive folder to make sure the dates were right, but this or a deal with the Internet of History failed in the matter of slavery. After that available on Vimeo solution, which has the player blocking downloads and connections much lower than the Google platform.
The task of gathering was not easy. The entire collection contains approximately 15,000 files that live under 1 TB, and contains PDFs, printed ads, WWDC sessions, 80s apathy and the combination of macOS and iOS wallpapers are among the news to come soon.
The project includes economic and operational costs Gold accepts donations to keep the file alive. He also appreciates content delivery, because although the collection is impressive, he still looks for the best quality copies, even in physical format.