<story><title>Unofficial Apple Archive</title><url>https://www.applearchive.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>I love the early 2000&amp;#x27;s Apple aesthetic.  I&amp;#x27;m not sure if it was actually really good, or I just associate it with a happy time in my life.&lt;p&gt;I still have an iTunes playlist with all of the music from the dancing silhouette iPod commercials, and I get the warm and fuzzies when I listen to it.&lt;p&gt;I wish there was a high-quality archive of these commercials online to relive some of those memories.  Unfortunately, every time I look for them on YouTube, they&amp;#x27;re incomplete copies of over-compressed copies of watermarked copies of cropped copies of altered copies of something someone recorded off what looks like low-grade Betamax.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hoorayimhelping</author><text>I think 2004 - 2007 OS X was the most beautiful, enjoyable and usable operating system that ever existed. For me, it had just the right amount of stability and features without being bloated or goofy. Aqua was just so freaking beautiful to look at, it still gives me a &lt;i&gt;coupe de cour&lt;/i&gt; when I look at it. I loved the pinstripes before they went to brushed aluminum.</text></comment>
<story><title>Unofficial Apple Archive</title><url>https://www.applearchive.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>I love the early 2000&amp;#x27;s Apple aesthetic.  I&amp;#x27;m not sure if it was actually really good, or I just associate it with a happy time in my life.&lt;p&gt;I still have an iTunes playlist with all of the music from the dancing silhouette iPod commercials, and I get the warm and fuzzies when I listen to it.&lt;p&gt;I wish there was a high-quality archive of these commercials online to relive some of those memories.  Unfortunately, every time I look for them on YouTube, they&amp;#x27;re incomplete copies of over-compressed copies of watermarked copies of cropped copies of altered copies of something someone recorded off what looks like low-grade Betamax.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lostgame</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;m not sure if it was actually really good, or I just associate it with a happy time in my life.&lt;p&gt;I am a collector of Macs from around this time. I just picked up an orange G3 Clamshell iBook, and I absolutely adore my &amp;#x27;pixar lamp&amp;#x27; iMac G4.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m considering internal hardware mod projects to get these two up to a reasonable speed.</text></comment>