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Happy 43rd Birthday Apple!

Happy 43rd Birthday Apple! (Yes, it’s true, Apple was founded on April Fools Day in 1976.)

Steve Jobs and Steve (Woz) Wozniak and Ronald Wayne founded what would become one of the most successful companies in history. The company was originally founded to sell the Apple I personal computer kit to the Homebrew Computer Club.

For an inside look at the founding of Apple, be sure to read Woz’s article Homebrew and How the Apple Came to Be.

Apple has changed quite a bit over these 43 years, hanging on through feast and famine, even bouncing back from near bankruptcy to achieving the feat of being one of the largest companies in the world today.

Happy 43rd birthday Apple! Here’s to at least 43 more!

Chris Hauk

Chris is a Senior Editor at Mactrast. He lives somewhere in the deep Southern part of America, and yes, he has to pump in both sunshine and the Internet.