Triumph of the nerds post

Xerox started the first user friendly, personal interface. However it was very expensive. Xerox was scared of the new technology and didn’t do much with it, that’s when they showed it to Steve Jobs, who knew the potential. He brought it to the Apple board, and to copy what he learned at Xerox. They code named the computer Lisa, however it had many problems. It didn’t work right, and was going to have a price tag of $10,000. An apple employee, Jef Raskin had an idea for a cheap computer, which was as simple to use as a toaster. He came up with Macintosh because it was America’s favorite apple. Jobs took it over to make it "a cheaper lisa." 

However! (dun dun dun) IBM came out with their first PC in 1981, trailblazing the market. Software ran the market for IMB, which wouldn’t work on the Mac. That’s when the Macintosh started Graphic user interface and go into the application industry. With years and years of rumors, and prepping, the Mac came out with a release date: January 24, 1984. The Mac market was 1,000 more than the IMB PC, and those applications they bragged about, were scarce. They only had Mac paint, and Mac write. Even though IBM wasn’t as easy to use, you could make spreadsheets, word processing, and database. Apple then bought Adobe out, and created desktop publishing.

Bill Gates then created Windows, which challenged the Mac.

            All of the innovators knew that the Internet was a fast moving and evolving medium, and knew that they were going to have to keep up and change with the revolution.