Special guest Michael Steeber joins the show to discuss his new project, The Apple Store Time Machine — an intricately-detailed explorable walkthrough of four of Apple’s original retail stores.

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Michael Steeber’s homepage.
The App Store Time Machine.
Steeber’s first crack at the idea of recreating original Apple Stores virtually, this one using ARKit last year.
Tabletops, Steeber’s newsletter.
Steeber’s Apple Store Glossary.
A 4-minute video from the grand opening of the Glendale Galleria Apple Store on 19 May 2001. Apple opened its first two stores that day — in Glendale, California and Tysons, Virginia. Customers waited for three hours to enter the store and were happy to do so.
Signage outside the Lincoln Park Apple Store in Chicago, with “Apple Store” anachronistically set in Apple Garamond.
Apple Marina Bay Sands, in Singapore. Just gorgeous.
Apple Carnegie Library, in Washington, DC.
Apple Tower Theatre, in Los Angeles.
Apple Walnut Street, in always-sunny Philadelphia.
- Walnut Street ransacked and burned during the George Floyd riots on 30 May 2020.
- My Instagram photo of the employee-painted mural coming to life on the boarded-up Walnut Street Apple Store, 13 June 2020. (Original JPEG, for posterity after Facebook collapses.)
- The finished mural.
Bill Gates’s apparently apocryphal quote that “640K ought to be enough for anybody.”

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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