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It's a milestone day for MacRumors, as today marks our 25th birthday. MacRumors was coincidentally founded on Steve Jobs' birthday of February 24, 2000, with articles starting just a few days later.

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MacRumors was founded by medical student Arnold Kim, and it remained a side project for over eight years until he decided to give up medicine to focus on MacRumors as a full-time career. That backstory and additional perspective were shared in a July 2008 New York Times profile.

Through the years, MacRumors grew along with Apple's popularity and added additional writers, editors, and other staff members, with the team now numbering roughly a dozen dedicated folks who live and breathe Apple news and rumors.


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MacRumors as it appeared in May 2000

For those of us who have been around MacRumors since nearly the beginning, the past quarter century has somehow simultaneously felt like both a lifetime and a blink of an eye, and we certainly couldn't have done it without our loyal readers and forum members. For 25 years now, MacRumors has been known for its active and passionate community that has reached over a million registered members and over 32 million forum posts. If you're not a member, we invite you to register for our forums and add your voice to our community.

To all who have helped make MacRumors the best place on the internet to learn about and discuss all things Apple, thank you, and here's to another 25 years.

Article Link: MacRumors Turns 25 Years Old
Hello from way way back! Thanks for building this terrific forum community and continuing to offer Apple related information worth reading.

I was just thinking about the number of rumor sites that used to exist and how frenzied it all seemed. And that was when only a handful of us even seemed to care what Apple was up to.

But please, please, somebody please share a crazy spy shot of the upcoming xMac.
 
My go-to site for Apple Info for a very long time.
Congratulations and Keep it going!
 
I've heard a rumor it's your birthday... hope it's a great one!
 
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Dang, I had forgotten that it was just a Slashdot clone early on. (Although that explains why I went with this username here, as this is also my Slashdot user name, created as a joke making fun of the not-logged-in Slashdot default commenter name.

(I had another account/user name here before this one that is lost to time.)
 
arnold kim gave up a career in medicine for a tech rumors website 😂 😂
The real MVP
 
I was traveling but following it for years until I eventually registered in 2007.

Congrats MR

A note though, I know things change but I do think MR was better before the iPhone
came out.
 
Keeping a site like this running for that long is no small feat. Congratulations!
I had to check my profile to see how long I've been a forum member. Yikes, I think I may be old.
 
Happy Birthday! Thanks for going strong all these years. Nostalgia is hitting: for me it all started with our family getting a Mac SE with 20 MB HD in 1987 and playing Dark Castle. Used to subscribe to the print copy of MacUser. When print disappeared, sites like MR and Macworld have kept us up on everything. Here's to many more!

Though I've recently registered for posting, I've been using MacRumors since the very beginning!
 
Happy Birthday! I apparently created my forum profile in Aug of '03, but I know I lurked before then.
 


It's a milestone day for MacRumors, as today marks our 25th birthday. MacRumors was coincidentally founded on Steve Jobs' birthday of February 24, 2000, with articles starting just a few days later.

MacRumors-25th-Birthday-3-1.jpg

MacRumors was founded by medical student Arnold Kim, and it remained a side project for over eight years until he decided to give up medicine to focus on MacRumors as a full-time career. That backstory and additional perspective were shared in a July 2008 New York Times profile.

Through the years, MacRumors grew along with Apple's popularity and added additional writers, editors, and other staff members, with the team now numbering roughly a dozen dedicated folks who live and breathe Apple news and rumors.


macrumors_may2000.jpg


MacRumors as it appeared in May 2000

For those of us who have been around MacRumors since nearly the beginning, the past quarter century has somehow simultaneously felt like both a lifetime and a blink of an eye, and we certainly couldn't have done it without our loyal readers and forum members. For 25 years now, MacRumors has been known for its active and passionate community that has reached over a million registered members and over 32 million forum posts. If you're not a member, we invite you to register for our forums and add your voice to our community.

To all who have helped make MacRumors the best place on the internet to learn about and discuss all things Apple, thank you, and here's to another 25 years.

Article Link: MacRumors Turns 25 Years Old
Happy birthday! 🎂
 
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