EveryMac Turns 30
EveryMac.com, a site providing detailed information on every Mac model, celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2026. The milestone is noted alongside Daring Fireball's 24th anniversary, with DF's John Gruber reflecting on EveryMac's longevity, having launched in 1996 before Steve Jobs returned to Apple.
Background
EveryMac.com is a long-running independent reference site that catalogs specifications, pricing, and identifiers for every Apple Macintosh model ever released. Launched in 1996 — before Steve Jobs returned to Apple (1997) and before the iMac revived the company — it is considered a pillar of the old-guard Apple enthusiast web. John Gruber's Daring Fireball (est. 2002) and Michael Tsai's blog (same vintage) are younger cousins in this ecosystem. Brock Kyle, EveryMac's proprietor, remains active maintaining the database three decades later. The site's 30-year anniversary is notable because such volunteer-run, single-topic resources have largely been displaced by corporate documentation, YouTube, and social media; its survival reflects the durability of the pre-social-web era's "ethos" of obsessive, non-commercial technical archiving.