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trickness

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May 13, 2012
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It’s been over 20 years, but still it’s surprising that I can’t seem to find anything online about the launch of Mac.com - maybe around 2002 or 2003 Apple launched this primitive online service for email and you could also have photo galleries. It was obviously before even OSX was launched, before the iPod.

I had a photo gallery on the service and David Lynch sent me a nice note about my pictures. In the wake of him passing away last week, I’m trying to get some information together about the launch of the service and it features and timeline, but I just can’t seem to find anything about it online whatsoever. If anybody has a link or any personal recollections about when Apple launched this first online service in the early 2000s, I would really appreciate if you could share that. Thanks!
 
It was originally launched under the iTools umbrella, which was rebranded .Mac a couple of years later. When .Mac became MobileMe the domain changed to me.com, then later iCloud/icloud.com.

 
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