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Apple CEO Tim Cook posted a happy birthday message on Twitter to the original Macintosh, which debuted 35 years ago today.

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The year 1984 was a wild time, and not just because it was when Apple — whose later invention, the iPhone, would spark fears about the surveillance state imagined in the book 1984— became a global phenomena. But also because there were bowties.

Steve Jobs debuts the Macintosh at a 1984 shareholder meeting. Credit: Paul Sakuma/AP/REX/Shutterstock

Maybe Steve Jobs' hands are just really big, but the original Mac looks tiny! With just a 9-inch black and white monitor, this baby originally sold for about $2,500 — the equivalent of around $5,000 today.

The Apple Macintosh was designed by Steve Jobs to be as 'user-friendly' as possible. Jobs wanted to produce an 'appliance computer' that clients could unpack, plug in and start to use with very little computer knowledge. It was also designed to use a graphical display rather than the standard text-based display previously used. Credit: SSPL via Getty Images

So many small-yet-clunky computers, assembling to change the world.

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Thousands of Apple Macintosh computers sit on double decked manufacturing lines for their 48 hour "burn in" in Freemont, CA. Credit: Paul Sakuma/AP/REX/Shutterstock

Steve Jobs debuted the first Mac alongside then-Apple President John Sculley. Apparently, not everyone loved bowties.

Side note: Look at that double-breasted jacket on Steve.

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The Mac had some pretty snazzy features, like this mouse and keypad, which both look extremely satisfying to press.

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Apple still needed to do some convincing that its personal computer could truly be personal — that is, both usable and useful to the average person. It launched a massive ad campaign to show that "If You Can Point, You Can Use a Macintosh, too." Today, we've come a long way from needing to convince people that computers are something they might want to use. But Apple's intuitive design has made this slogan pretty much hold true.

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Happy 35th birthday, Macintosh! Hope you won't let your company's mid-life crisis get you down.

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