A quarter of a century back, - on January 22, 1984 - Apple unveiled the Macintosh during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII! And there has been no looking back ever since for the Mac, which is now 25 years old!

The Apple Macintosh owes its origin to renegade engineers, who transformed the association between human and keyboard. The company announced the arrival of the Mac in a turning-point commercial by Ridley Scott, featuring a solitary runner defeating Big Brother - IBM.

It was the Mac's GUI - graphical user interface - that set it apart from all others in the beginning. The GUI discovered by the Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs. And in 1983, the company first used the interface on its Lisa personal computer, which crashed due to its whopping $9,995 price tag.

The interface gained popularity after the launch of the 1984 Macintosh, which cost $2,495. The interfaced was accompanied by another first - the mouse - and a built-in monitor, plus a more durable hard-case floppy disk.

It was with the click of the mouse that helped the Mac unfold the world of personal computing to countless people, which went on to become the way of the world.

Despite falling on problematic times - with Jobs resigning; opening a new company NeXT, which was later acquired by Apple; and Jobs rejoining Apple - the Mac survived.

More than a mere "slab of technology," the Mac is Jobs' vision: the center of a new digital lifestyle of video, music, and networking!