Insanely great easter egg in Mountain Lion ("Mac" OS X)

[Ancandis]

I just realized a tiny easter egg while downloading some files in ML with Safari (6.0 fwiw).

For incomplete downloads in Finder the "Date Modified" is listed as
January 24th, 1984 09:00 AM


No further explanation what happened on this date.

 

[xnickitynickx]

nice! i love stuff like that

 

[SnowLeopard2008]

That's pretty cool

 

[iPhil]

I just realized a tiny easter egg while downloading some files in ML with Safari (6.0 fwiw).

For incomplete downloads in Finder the "Date Modified" is listed as
January 24th, 1984 09:00 AM


No further explanation what happened on this date.

Jobs demos Macintosh on that date (1/24/84)

 

[Pompiliu]

Jobs demos Macintosh on that date (1/24/84)

10x for the link.
Didn't know that.

 

[Rcunningham]

Explanation

The reason Apple chose January 24, 1984 (as opposed to any other date) for this Easter egg was that the first Macintosh (the Macintosh 128K) was released to customers on that date.

 

[Mr. Retrofire]

I just realized a tiny easter egg while downloading some files in ML with Safari (6.0 fwiw).

This is no easter egg. Mac OS 8.5-Mac OS 9.2.2 and (Mac) OS X, especially the Finder use this date for temporary locked files (no attribute changes possible).