Apple Retail Store Time Machine
The Apple Store Time Machine is a celebration of the places and products that have shaped our lives for more than twenty years. This interactive experience recreates memorable moments in Apple history with painstaking detail and historical accuracy.
Via John Gruber:
It’s effectively a Mac game that you download and explore. The “levels”, as it were, are exquisitely-detailed 3D recreations of four iconic Apple Stores, including the Fifth Avenue “cube” in New York.
Update (2022-07-26): See also: Michael Steeber.
Update (2022-08-02): Jason Snell:
Steeber’s project brought up memories of my own. I covered the Palo Alto mini store opening for Macworld!
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.