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66 years old wow, I will always remember Steve as the young energetic entrepreneur in those early black and white photos. It's also a reminder of how old I am now too.
 
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Happy Birthday Steve and MacRumors!

Still miss the Apple of old led by Steve Jobs. Hasn’t been the same since.

Although the rumours on future Mac products has reignited a bit of that excitement that had gone missing for the last 5-6 years. The Mac has always been my favourite Apple product. Hopefully some of the rumours come to fruition.
 
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Steve was diagnosed with an extremely rare type of cancer which is actually very easy to cure. I'm 99% sure that if he got the help he needed right away he would be still the CEO. It's makes me so angry that such smart man believed such bs.
No, it's actually not "very easy". The 5-year survival rate for pancreatic NET is about 54% on average. Not bad but hardly a guaranteed cure. Steve actually ended up making it 8 years. It's not clear that a 9 month delay in treatment at the very beginning, out of 8 years, would have made the difference between life and death. It might have, but we'll never know; and it certainly doesn't warrant 99% confidence.
 
When Apple adopted Unix, I abandoned Microsoft. I remember in the mid 1980's Apple was a novelty when "'grownups were using IBM DOS and IBM PC's. Man, I'm old and older than Jobs. I remember using COBOL, tapes, punch cards and Fortran. Basic was for hobbyists. I still have my IBM PC with a self installed 10Mb hard drive. LOL
 
I remember using COBOL, tapes, punch cards and Fortran.
I missed having to use punch cards in my college programming classes by one semester. Glad I missed them.

I did take Fortran programming in college, though.

Never had to use COBOL or tapes, but COBOL was used at some of the companies I worked for.
 
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While there aren't too many Macrumors these days, I'm still glad this site is around. They outlived every other early 2000s rumor site in editorial and community. The fact we have a 'Mac forum' not in Facebook or Reddit is fantastic. Us old-geezers still get to talk with other Mac users on an independently ran site.
Same here, I really like the community here. Before I started posting regularly, I also would visit Cult of Mac, 9 to 5 Mac and AppleInsider. I still visit those sites, but no where near as much as MacRumors.

And I have not had any desire to register for those sites and post in the forums - either the forums / posts seemed to be low volume, or I just didn't care for the general tone of most of the posts / posters. Sure, I don't agree with everything everyone says here in the MacRumors forum, but:
A) I doubt everyone agrees with what I say
B) There are a lot of smart/funny/good people posting here
C) I learn a lot about technical matters that are deeper than what I have worked with as a developer and BA in IT (especially @cmaier, but not just him).

I don't participate in a lot of forums because there is a lot of toxic behavior, but I don't see that much at all here at MacRumors.
 
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Same here, I really like the community here. Before I started posting regularly, I also would visit Cult of Mac, 9 to 5 Mac and AppleInsider. I still visit those sites, but no where near as much as MacRumors.

And I have not had any desire to register for those sites and post in the forums - either the forums / posts seemed to be low volume, or I just didn't care for the general tone of most of the posts / posters. Sure, I don't agree with everything everyone says here in the MacRumors forum, but:
A) I doubt everyone agrees with what I say
B) There are a lot of smart/funny/good people posting here
C) I learn a lot about technical matters that are deeper than what I have worked with as a developer and BA in IT (especially @cmaier, but not just him).

I don't participate in a lot of forums because there is a lot of toxic behavior, but I don't see that much at all here at MacRumors.

Aw, shucks (blushes)
 
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Happy Birthday Steve, hope you're hanging up there looking down on all the love pouring up to you from MR on their 21st. 🙌
 
Happiest birthday Steve I wish you were still around so we could have someone to smack the scamming conmen Zuckerberg/Musk/Dorsey upside the head. This trinity of tech leaders today is poison.
Care to explain how Musk is a scammer ?
 
I guess I've been here since 2019?! Wow... time flies.
Only just now got my first Mac (M1, 13-inch MBP)
Great site that I really enjoy, Happy birthday and here's to another 21!
 
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I'm proud we've survived and grown since early 2000s. The Mac-web is very different today than it was when we started. There used to be a lot of smaller Mac/Apple-sites around, but I guess there's been consolidation over the years with the smaller publications being unable to survive.

I am surprised 20 years later you are still enthusiastic to keep the site around and work on it.
 
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Happy Birthday! Man I've been coming to this site since 2001 and joined in 2002. Lots and lots of memories here. This site was my salvation for help when OS X first came out. I would have spent hours and hours trying to play a dvd on OS X 1.0 if someone here hadn't told me it didn't have a dvd reader program lol.
 
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I wonder if Cook gets sick of living under Jobs' shadow...

I mean - it's not every job you take that every time the previous, now dead person would have had a birthday, you have to publically write some inspiring dross.
 
I wonder if Cook gets sick of living under Jobs' shadow...

I mean - it's not every job you take that every time the previous, now dead person would have had a birthday, you have to publically write some inspiring dross.

I think Tim got over that long ago, if the shadow you can't escape belongs to THE Steve Jobs it isn't really much to be ashamed about. I think things would have been different if Steve was still here for sure, of course, it has to but I think Steve would be proud of how well Tim's looked after the company, lets not forget he hand picked Tim. Carrying the company he left behind to be the most valuable company in history is amazing regardless of how many try to spin that into a negative
 
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Happiest birthday Steve I wish you were still around so we could have someone to smack the scamming conmen Zuckerberg/Musk/Dorsey upside the head. This trinity of tech leaders today is poison.

I'd love to hear how Musk is a "scamming conman". Childish at times and with a big ego sure, but then again Jobs had a big ego as well.
 
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You should be very proud. Virtually all the automotive forums I used to love are now long gone or are desolate wastelands, with the only posters being spam bots. It's a real shame as there were so many funny threads, discussions, photo how-to guides that have proved invaluable, information and sales areas, all been destroyed by Facebook and YouTube videos.

Long live MR. We members might not all agree on stuff on this site, but on that one I think we can.
Yeah this board has always been a mainstay for me. Check it every day even though I no longer own anything Apple
 
I visit MacRumors daily, it’s one of my favorite locations on the web. Happy birthday and here’s to many more!
 
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I wonder if Cook gets sick of living under Jobs' shadow...

I mean - it's not every job you take that every time the previous, now dead person would have had a birthday, you have to publically write some inspiring dross.

Seeing as though they were friends and highly respected Jobs, I doubt it. He doesn't strike me as being petty. Similarly, I suspect Jobs would be very proud of Cook's leadership at Apple over the years.

Cook's very focused on his work and seeing that Apple excels in the midst of a devastating once in a hundred years pandemic, and looking after Apple's 140,000+ employees.
 
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