Before Macintosh: The Apple Lisa opens with news footage of a local landfill. The truck drivers were paid a lot of money to dump all of the world’s remaining Lisa computers onto the ground and run ...

It was 41 years ago today when Apple announced the original Macintosh, one of the first successful personal computers to sport a graphical user interface.

Playing on the dystopian theme of George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), the commercial shows an athletic woman smashing a Big-Brother-like projection of a leader dictating ideas to a room ...