The Lost 1984 Video: young Steve Jobs introduces the Macintosh

The room was dark since there were no Windows

So, that's what Siri's Grandpa sounds like..

To be honest, this video brought tears to my eyes ... What an era it was.

Happy 40th Birthday Macintosh. The computer for the rest of us! And RIP Steve, I miss your passion and charisma at Apple events. What a special moment in modern history.

Can you imagine a world where people were actually excited to see letters move across a screen or images appear on it? How the world has changed since 1984!

When he made the macintosh talk, the crowd was so crazy even I smiled.

I remember in the early 1980's an Apple salesmen came to our company to demonstrate the Lisa computer. After several minutes of demoing the Lisa he said, "have you noticed I have shown you this software without touching the keyboard once?". It was very impressive, but also very expensive. Then a few years later they released the Mac, and the Lisa was history.

People today can't appreciate what Steve Jobs presented on that day. We now take such things for granted. When I first heard about this Macintosh thingy I'd grown up working with command line computer interfaces such as DOS. I couldn't believe what people were telling me until I saw this computer for myself. Over the years Steve Jobs went on to present even more amazing stuff like that, for instance smartphones, a technical miracle at the time and for me still is. Rest in peace, Steve, we all miss you. BTW, I'm not an Apple fanboy, I own a Windows laptop and a Google Pixel mobile. But I know that these gadgets wouldn't exist without Steve Jobs.

"Only a few people have seen it" 11 years later: 8.8 M views

That's the face of someone who is really proud of his product and really loves what he does. Amazing footage

The look of joy in his face almost brought a tear to my eye. Such a beautiful moment!! I can’t wait till I have something similar

My 25-year career as an IT professional was inspired by his Apple II computer I had when I was in high school. I never forget the Apple BASIC, CPM Card, etc. I remember when I had to gratefully deal with IRQ jumpers to get my SAM Speech Card to work. What a fond memory. Thank you Steve. May God reward you up there for the great things you had done for the world.

Let's be honest...This footage has a better quality than some recent paranormal activity videos on YouTube😂

Hi I am 61 right now but I am proud to say that I was present there and excited as hell, those were my college days and till now everything has changed dramatically. Edit:- Yes! I am an Indian and I was present there, what is so unbelievable in this. btw thanks for all your greetings, This means a lot to me.

I remember my first encounter with a Mac in 1988 or so. I’d never seen anything like it, but 20 minutes later I was printing a beautiful letter and drawing stuff. It was revolutionary.

I was so happy that I had the chance to be among the audience, Steve gave us goosebumps.

"we're finally here. the future." -some guy in 1984

This is a guy who truly knows how to promote his products

"Hello, I'm Macintosh. It sure is great to get out of that bag." LMAO–

I was an ad agency production manager from 1960s to 2010s. The release of the Macintosh in 1984 was a total game changer. No more physical cut and paste of text matter with photo prints to create an advert. Adverts became completely made/produced via the Mac. Macs were the platform of choice because operating them was so much more intuitive, easier and quicker than trying to do the same work on a Windows platform. Back then design and production software was mainly made for use only on Macs. Only in recent years have many softwares been built for Windows PC as well. Today most ad agencies, design and creative businesses in Australia use Macs in preference to a Windows PC. Thank heavens Apple and Steve Jobs came along when they did. Creatives never had it so good.