Card #04: 🖥️🍎 Apple: $666 & The Garden Of Eden
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The Apple-1, Apple's first computer, went on sale in July 1976 for $666.66. 📍 Steve Wozniak says he priced it this way because he liked repeating numbers. 📍 In Abrahamic religions, the 'forbidden fruit' is a name given to the fruit growing in the 🌳 Garden of Eden that God commands mankind not to eat. The story names the source as the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil". 📍 Apple's official company logo has an 🍎 apple with a bite (tree of knowledge) taken out of it. 📍 Although the Bible never actually specifies what Adam and Eve ate in the Garden of Eden, the 🍎 apple has become the dominant symbol of temptation, sin, and the fall of man. 📍 The Latin word "malum" means both "apple" and "evil". 📍 Since at least the 17th-century, scholars have agreed that the answer is to be found in a quirk of the Latin language. The Latin word for 🍎 apple is "malum," which happens to be a homonym of the Latin word for "evil." Since, the argument goes, the 'forbidden fruit' caused the fall o
The Apple-1, Apple's first computer, went on sale in July 1976 for $666.66.
📍 Steve Wozniak says he priced it this way because he liked repeating numbers.
📍 In Abrahamic religions, the 'forbidden fruit' is a name given to the fruit growing in the 🌳 Garden of Eden that God commands mankind not to eat. The story names the source as the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil".
📍 Apple's official company logo has an 🍎 apple with a bite (tree of knowledge) taken out of it.
📍 Although the Bible never actually specifies what Adam and Eve ate in the Garden of Eden, the 🍎 apple has become the dominant symbol of temptation, sin, and the fall of man.
📍 The Latin word "malum" means both "apple" and "evil".
📍 Since at least the 17th-century, scholars have agreed that the answer is to be found in a quirk of the Latin language. The Latin word for 🍎 apple is "malum," which happens to be a homonym of the Latin word for "evil." Since, the argument goes, the 'forbidden fruit' caused the fall of man and humanity's expulsion from paradise, it is certainly a terrible malum ("evil").
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