Mac OS Evolution

brief history of mac os

[samf]

The animations for Yosemite were SO SMOOTH.

[myrin]

I love how once they entered the 2000s, they were like “screw it, we’re naming them after cats now”

[AAvfx]

First time I saw a Mac was on 1991, running Freehand software at a printing studio. It was dazzling! 🤯 My brain couldn't believe the level of details, because all I've known was Commodore-64 up until then! What a rush!

[hexagonalism]

Yosemite: My design is gonna live forever

Big Sur: Step aside big sir, time for Big Sur

[YellowYT]

I find the transition from 0:49 to 0:51 seem so nostalgic to me. The space background has so many memories to me, and the added effects make the nostalgia go through the roof.

[elgambitero]

I’ve been using MacOS since I was a small child, and it is weird to feel that each one of these versions corresponds with a stage in my life. Feels nostalgic and uncanny.

[umm_uh]

the song used is called "pas de deux" by bird creek

[HoHSiS]

New Macs: (silence)
The first Mac: _ooot_

[LimitFinity]

turn on subtitles and get a free history lesson.

[Jesse-eumn]

0:00 my dog is flipped out by this sound

[feta_cheesecake]

This video is genuinely amazing, the animations look very professional and the timing with the music is perfect, I think Apple wouldn’t have made a better Mac introduction video themselves.

[saksham.j]

How did you get that 1984 intro disk of insanely Mac intro?

[artiejj]

My favorite thing about MacOS is how it maintained it's character and each version had it's own quirks.

[kbhasi]

Nice! I always wanted to do a couple of videos similar to this but with Windows and KDE.
I also like how you showed glimpses of some of the original Mac demos, including the famous "hello" graphic seen in some of the stock photos for the original 128K.

[poundlandspeedwagonrequiem]

The “hello” callback to the original Macintosh aged like fine wine with the introduction of M1 iMacs

[ptukay]

My Grandpa was the main accessories controller (I'm not even really sure cuz he's dead) back when the apple computers were just so merely popular. In that first game you saw, he would sell controllers for that game. He was offered an even higher job yet he had to move to Cupertino where Apple would move to. My parents just had moved and made so many friends, so him caring about his offsprings deferred the offer and was fired. He tried to make money by gambling and in one of those sessions, he, unfortunately, got a heart attack. That was the end of that. I'm sure he would love how much Apple has changed.

[RamLaska]

0:29 I'd really like to know how this animation was done.
Macpaint didn't have any animating capabilities, and it's too nicely done to be freehand (and it's not even in paint mode ;), and the animation follows the brush stroke really nicely.

The brush stroke changes angle, which wasn't possible with MacPaint, and in addition, the animation is being done on a native 512x342 resolution, rather than being done after upscaling.

The second letter "l" moves around a tiny bit while being drawn, and the letter "o" is being drawn from two places at once during one part of the animation, which is telling, although I'm not sure what it tells.

One more thing, the animation is happening at exactly 60 fps (not one repeated/skipped frame), so it's obviously done afterwards somehow. The fastest animation speed on an original mac, even only animating a portion of the screen at a time, was about 15fps, maybe 30 if you were only changing a few bits at a time and had REALLY tight code.

Yeah, I know. Too much free time. You gotta understand -- this was my adolescence.

[DescensionSeeker]

1:01 I would have such a startup animation ...

[TangoMike]

It's also amazing what design elements still remain, and how the legacy can still be found

[arcturusngao]

What the hell this music do to my mind 🎶❤️❤️