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MacRumors Turns 26: Here's What Our Readers Thought About the iPod, iPhone, and More

MacRumors turns 26 today, and we want to take the opportunity to thank everyone who has read and supported our website over the years.

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MacRumors was founded by Arnold Kim on February 24, 2000, while he was a medical student, and it has since become one of the world's most popular Apple news websites. Kim was profiled in The New York Times in 2008. Coincidentally, we share our birthday with Steve Jobs, who would have turned 71 years old today.

Our website has been around for many major Apple product announcements, including the iPod, MacBook Pro, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and more.

Here are the forum threads for each product:

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Top Rated Comments

turbineseaplane Avatar
5 days ago at 07:00 am
Happy 26th!

After all this time, this remains my most frequented forum.

Thank you to Arn and the whole team!
Score: 31 Votes (Like | Disagree)
5 days ago at 07:02 am
Dang that iPod thread is painful.
Score: 19 Votes (Like | Disagree)
verniesgarden Avatar
5 days ago at 07:09 am
well something that remains consistent, no one is good at predicting success. Look at this terrible aged like milk take.

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Score: 13 Votes (Like | Disagree)
GenesisST Avatar
5 days ago at 07:00 am
It follow Apple's versioning!
Score: 11 Votes (Like | Disagree)
freedomlinux Avatar
5 days ago at 07:04 am

Dang that iPod thread is painful.
Sorry, I can't hear you over my Creative Nomad /s
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
sunapple Avatar
5 days ago at 07:20 am
What a joke, way too expensive, what are they smoking? Timeless comments that can be reused for the coming 26 years!
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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