you set the time incorrectly.

Ha, ha, ha.

I remember when the original Macintosh appeared. One of my fellow programmers bought one and brought it into work to show it to us. We all gathered around to look and discuss it for a while. Then we went back to our coding.

A NeXT Computer and its object oriented development tools and libraries were used by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN to develop the world's first web server software, CERN HTTPd, and also used to write the first web browser, WorldWideWeb.

I think the computer is still at CERN

We were running network-based systems for a couple of decades before the CERN work. They were not as flexible as the net has become, but it took a long time for WWW and search engines to become useful.

As for the Mac, when it was introduced, we were using menu/icon based systems, network enabled, 5-10 Mbute hard drives, and a real, secure operating system. I still have one that works fine after 35 years.

BTW when the Internet was "invented" ~40 years ago, we already had large networks of computers with even larger networks of terminals. That was true in the late 1960s within just my state of NC.

What NeXT did that amazed people was making the Unix boxes easy to configure. The network man that installed the NeXT box at CERN remarked that it used to take a day to get everything set up. He said he turned it on and answered a few prompts and the guys E-mail popped up. I think Solaris was around then (not sure) but it still doesn't do desktop as good as the old NeXT did.

I had been running Linux for years and before that Coherent and before that Xenix etc. I bought a mac mini to play with writing some iOS software and was playing around and found that it was Unix and fell in love with them, Unix and a decent desktop, I knew I was home.

to discharge my battery, I tried it once when my 6 went totally batshit crazy.

I've seen that hoax before as well

The 7's may end up being if the get rid of the head phone plug. The lightning jack is pretty water proof and I think they have made the speakers and microphones water proof. But if they make the circuit board waterproof then I think that makes the repairability about 0 because of the number of little plugs and sockets. It seems that they just want to protect it enough so that it can be salvaged after being dropped in a sink of toilet.

Of there is that iPhone that was lost overboard and found months later that was cleaned and dried and battery replaced and it worked. My guess is the salt water immediately shorted the battery.

I have worked on 2-way radios where a truck accidentally went under water. They took the radio out and filled a cooler with the river water and brought it in. Worked fine after cleaning it with distilled water and drying it out.

Snopes is a great web resource, but 1977 (TRS-80) came before the Macintosh. Macintosh improved it, didn't introduce it.

was fantastic. I used to say "Radio Shack took a 68000 processor and made it multiuser with 24 terminals, and Apple took it and drew pretty lines". I was more into Unix than graphics.

Anyone who had one were the true pioneers of the personal computer geek movement. You didn't need to be a geek to run the Macintosh. Although, I do remember my mother zapping alien invaders well into the 90s on the TRS-80. It was epic. Simply epic.

And the world grinds on.