The Door. The Key.
Written on April 29th, 2026 by Tech Ads
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Apple - iTools
iTools. At your service.
Introducing a new class of Internet services from Apple created exclusively for Mac users. With iTools,
you can make the Internet safer for your children, email friends, share your photos and iMovies,
and even create your own web site. And iTools are free for Mac OS 9 users. By signing up, here's
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The door. The key
Apple now gives you a faster, easier, safer, more productive way to take advantage of what the Internet has to offer. Just ‘Touse iTbols, all you need is Mac’0S 9. (Oh, and a Mac, of course) And upgrading gives you many new features. Like Sherlock” 2,
visit www.apple.com and click on iTools. Now you have full-powered email (with your very own“mac.com’ address), 20MB your personal shopper and Internet search detective. Multiple user support. And voiceprint passwords. So upgrade today
of free Internet storage space, a rock-solid way to protect your kids and a personal website you can build in minutes, and open the Internet's most powerful door. Just call 1-800-MY-APPLE or visit us at www.apple.com. @ Think different”
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‘The Door. The Key.’
Launched on January 5th 2000, iTools was Apple’s first widely available web toolkit. iTools was initially a free product linked with Mac OS 9 and comprised of a number of elements including a ‘@Mac.com’ e-mail service, hosted web pages, a shared online drive via iDisk, e-stationary, and site recommendations. iTools was renamed to .Mac on the July 17th 2002 when it became a subscription-based service.
An archive of the iTools homepage from summer 2000 can be viewed at the Internet Archive.
Via: MacWorld - July 2000
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