Engineers and designers at Apple ended up with the bulbous and fun iMac G3 computer that shipped on August 15th, 1998 — 25 years before this article you’re reading was first published.

The world would never see a computer quite like the iMac G3 again, but the G4 showed that Apple still had an eye for quirky and fun designs, as it was not quite ready to embrace the all-business ...

Bondi blue, thank you. And at the time, this made the iMac unlike any computer you’d ever seen. Until then, desktop PCs had been boring and beige – even Apple’s. The iMac was different. You wanted to ...

But the iMac G3 was arguably the first fashionable computer, becoming a late ’90s and Y2K staple, with around 6.5 million units sold before it was retired in 2003. It became entrenched in pop ...

One of the main reasons the iMac G3 was translucent was so that users could get a close-up glimpse of how the computer worked. Instead of being hidden inside an opaque box, the device’s parts ...

Apple released the iMac in August 1998 for $1,299 (about $2,500 today). It was an all-in-one computer with a CD drive, the modern PowerPC G3 processor, and a built-in modem that made it easier to ...