The Mac will now have to watch its cholesterol. (Photo/Apple)

Born in a Ridley Scott-directed dystopian hellscape back in 1984, Apple's venerable Macintosh personal computer turned 30-years-old today.

To celebrate 30 glorious years of counterculture dominance, Apple released a touchy-feely video on its splash page earlier this morning to tug at the Internet's collective heart strings.

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The original Apple Mac retailed for $2,495 and shipped with such state-of-the-art specs like a 9-inch CRT monitor, a 3.5-inch floppy disk drive and 128KB of RAM. The very first model didn't even ship with a hard drive, but an external drive could be purchased for an additional $495. 

Including the price of add-on storage, the Mac would cost the equivalent of $6,700 if purchased today. But the reality was that price tag was relatively small for the ability to own the very first, commercially viable personal computer with a graphical user interface. And publishing was never the same.

Happy birthday, Mac.

Reach editor Will Federman, who recently turned the same age as the Mac, here. Despite his advanced age, he also has a Twitter account you can reach him at here.