The iMac G3 dropped in 1998 and basically flipped the whole desktop world on its head. Apple ditched the boring beige boxes and went all-in on that colorful, see-through “Bondi Blue” shell with a built-in CRT. It was the first Mac to kill off the floppy drive and go USB-only, which felt insane at the time but ended up shaping the future. Over the next few years, Apple kept pumping out new colors—think Tangerine, Grape, Lime, and even Graphite—and kept tweaking the guts with faster G3 processors and better graphics through 2001. If you remember dragging that hockey puck mouse across your desk, you know exactly how it felt to live through the start of Apple’s comeback.