This week Apple celebrates the 25th birthday of its long-time famous personal computer, the Macintosh, more widely known as the Mac.

However, more than the nostalgic approach of the event, it is worth noting that during the last two decades and a half, it was the Macintosh and its magic touch turning the concept of a personal computer into a reality and moreover, turning Apple into a big player in the computer industry.

Nonetheless, it seems that the Cupertino based company is not quite eager to celebrate a moment. According to Andy Hertzfeld, a key person in the engineering and design team of the first iteration of the Macintosh stated that Steve Jobs is the type that concentrates on things to come, rather than making a fuss of achievements.

In addition, it looks like Hertzfeld has enough reasons to say that, as even Jobs himself stated in 1997 when he returned to Apple that he insisted that archived documents about old versions of the Macintosh should be sent off “to Stanford.”

On the other hand, both Apple fans and computer enthusiasts cannot forget what the Mac meant for the computer world at that moment. It was the first device of its kind that offered a graphical user interface (GUI), instead of the dull array of ones and zeros on the screen.

The Macintosh has also been illustrating the best of what the entire philosophy of the personal computer was all about, as all its hardware components, including the monitor, came in a single package that proved to be one of the most usable and productive computers on the market since it has been launched in 1984.