Who are the most passionate supporters of their computers on the planet?
That’s easy. Macintosh owners.
Apple has, without a doubt, the staunchest supporters of any particular computer incarnation. Want to get flamed? Say something bad about a Mac on a public forum.
Wit that in mind, I present today’s FamilyFirst site: Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories. Here’s their mission:
Folklore.org is a web site devoted to collective historical storytelling. It captures and presents sets of related stories that describe interesting events from multiple perspectives, allowing groups of people to recount their shared history in the form of interlinked anecdotes. The site is structured as a series of projects containing related, interlinked stories. The stories are indexed by their characters and the topics they cover, and may be sorted by various criteria. Readers can rate the stories, and add comments, or other stories. Reality is subjective, and memory is shaped by both prior and subsequent experience, so two witnesses of the same incident may disagree about what transpired. Often participants have axes to grind, and they sometimes distort events to suit their needs, perhaps without even realizing it. The best way to see an event clearly is to view it from multiple perspectives.
Find out the identity of the first animated character to ever be displayed on the Mac.
Read about a legendary name among Mac historical enthusiasts: Burrell Smith.
Read about the importance of Nerf balls in the Mac developer culture.
Appleheads probably already know about this site. The rest of you will love hearing the fun, improbable little details in the development of the computer that would define what is Apple.
http://www.folklore.org
