Dave Lawrence from Newton Poetry wondered what Apple's website would've looked like back when the Lisa came out. As the interweb didn't exist then (well, not as we now know it) he fired up Photoshop and got to work on designing it for himself. Gone are Apple's 21st Century cool greys, back then Apple was beige (most things were until the 1998's iMac) and look how much power $10,000 could buy you; 5MHz processing power and 1MB of RAM. Scorcher! Mind you 8MHz and 1MB of RAM was fine for me in '91. Designed for the business market, the Lisa never took off. IBM was the default alternative back then, not Microsoft. Apple soon regained some ground the year after - we all know what happened in 1984 now, don't we?
Thanks to Cult of Mac for the story.
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