30 years after debut, Apple’s original Mac still influential Apple’s Mac still influences, 30 years after debut - Business - The Boston Globe

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"These concepts are so fundamental today that it’s hard to imagine a time when they existed only in research labs — primarily Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center. Apple cofounder Steve Jobs and his team got much of its inspiration from PARC, which they visited while designing the Mac. 

The Mac has had ‘‘incredible influence on pretty much everybody’s lives all over the world since computers are now so ubiquitous,’’ said Brad Myers, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute. ‘‘Pretty much all consumer electronics are adopting all of the same kinds of interactions.’’"

30 years after debut, Apple’s original Mac still influential Apple’s Mac still influences, 30 years after debut - Business - The Boston Globe