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My Apple business card from the past

Posted Oct 4th, 2008 at 6:13 PM and seen
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Someone sent me a picture of a card that he got from me back in 1984. Those were the days...

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 Guy Kawasaki

Comments (22)

Oct 04, 2008
Ben Goheen said...
Apple should go back to this retro look now, just to change it up a bit
Oct 04, 2008
Adele McAlear said...
What's more shocking is that he hung onto it for 24 years!
Oct 04, 2008
theadvinci said...
Neat... I wasn't even born then.
Oct 04, 2008
Chetan Bhawani said...
Funniest of it.. the Apple Logo! Rainbowed..
Oct 04, 2008
Lucretia (GeekMommy) Pruitt said...
That is so rockin!!
Thinking back to 1984... that was shortly after the Apple III "pick it up and drop it a couple of inches to seat the card because the automated building system didn't push them in right" phase. Ah, the good ol' days!! :)

What a great thing Guy - but moreso? Think about the impact you've had on someone that they kept it for 24 yrs!

Oct 04, 2008
Aulia Masna said...
Euh? My comment didn't go thru?
Oct 04, 2008
Aulia Masna said...
Repost: LOL - Everyone at applestore is now a software evangelist
Oct 04, 2008
meetmurli said...
Good to see that Rainbow logo... And I used to think Evangelist is the 2k+ term... however it existed from 80's only... Gr8 Card and the person have preserved it well... HE anticipated ur success quite ago... Best of Luck...
Oct 04, 2008
Michael Carnell said...
Very, very cool. I still have some of those rainbow stickers and a few other artifacts. I may even have the rough draft of "Selling the Dream" that I proofread!
Oct 04, 2008
Shawn Stewart said...
Awesome! The edges are so crisp. That baby had to be locked up somewhere under glass.
Oct 04, 2008
Dave Cross said...
That card is pristine.
Oct 04, 2008
Arturo Pelayo said...
Nice "blast from the past" Guy!

One day I might be at Apple. Crossing fingers while applying for jobs there. =)

Oct 04, 2008
Jim Ley said...
Who was it that wrote, "One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed, with the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn't dream of a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope, anarchy?"
Oct 04, 2008
Chelsea said...
Sweet! I was a Mac Specialist during grad school. Loved my cards though they were NOT this awesome.
Oct 04, 2008
Chelsea said...
Sweet! I was a Mac Specialist during grad school. Loved my cards though they were NOT this awesome.
Oct 04, 2008
btn said...
Weird to see a business card without an email or web address.
Oct 05, 2008
Gab Ottino said...
Looks still cool after more than 20 years! What's the typeface? Almost looks like Helvetica, but not exactly...
Oct 05, 2008
Adriano Sousa said...
I believe that's the Reebok typeface, ain't it?
Oct 05, 2008
Daniel Schildt said...
And I was born during that year. Oh, history of my life...
Oct 05, 2008
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Oct 06, 2008
Matt said...
No email address. I guess it wasn't invented yet :-)
Oct 07, 2008
Hani Hong said...
Props to your title! You actually had two phone numbers? Oh those halcyon pre-mobile phone-pre-email-website days! Plus, that's the famous year the Macintosh was released. For those of you who weren't even born when Guy was handing out his cards... here's the famous Apple Ad introducing the Macintosh computer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R706isyDrqI

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