The original iMac marked a clean break from previous Mac peripherals by dumping all old ports and replacing them with a shiny, new port type, USB. Since then, every iMac has had at least one of ...

And because some things never change, Apple was yanking users back and forth on ports even then—the iMac G3 used the then-new USB, in contrast to prior Macs.

The iMac G3 featured other innovations, like a hidden cable management compartment, the use of USB ports instead of Apple’s older proprietary connections, and an integrated design that made it a ...

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Beige, boring and a bit too complicated — in the 1990s, personal computers had about as much charisma as an ...

The computer came with a PowerPC G3 processor, 4GB hard drive, 32MB of RAM, a CD drive, two USB ports, and an Ethernet port, reflecting the emerging importance of internet connectivity at the time.

It's a computer that Apple could easily promote with the exact same ad that it ran back in 1998 for its inspiration, the iMac G3. "Presenting three easy steps to the Internet," said Jeff Goldblum ...

It also ditched technologies like serial ports and floppy disk readers in favor of CD and USB. ... The iconic iMac G3 was announced by Steve Jobs almost 26 years ago, on May 6, 1998.

Each model comes with two Thunderbolt ports (with support for up to a 6K display), but the 8-core iMac also packs two additional USB-C ports and a 1Gbps Ethernet port built into the power adapter.

Beige, boring, and a bit too complicated — in the 1990s, personal computers had about as much charisma as an underwhelming date. Enter the iMac G3: the weird, egg-shaped desktop that became an ...

But the iMac G3 was arguably the first fashionable computer, becoming a late ’90s and Y2K staple, with around 6.5 million units sold before it was retired in 2003.