Of course you heard. The original bondi blue iMac went on sale exactly ten years ago. It was pretty and revolutionary and Steve was convinced it would be a hit. And it was.

Here’s the article of that day on Mac Observer. The notable thing is how polite the article is (it seems to come straight out of a school newpspaper).

Also striking is that if you replace iMac with iPhone (or any other cheered new Apple product), nothing seems to have changed:

From the moment we entered you could tell there was a party atmosphere in the store.

One thing that simply can not be overstated is how cool the iMac looks.

We saw so many happy customers walking out of CompUSA with smiles on their faces, it was simply amazing.

This location had 72 iMacs delivered on Friday, August 14th. More than 60 of those were pre-sold before they even arrived, and all 72 had been sold by 11:00 AM.

Don’t you love how things never change?

Oh, one thing’s changed since then though. You can watch it on YouTube.