Macs Only! was established on December 28, 1995 by Bill Fox as a daily page of Macintosh news, and it read like one: a bold headline, a double hyphen, a paragraph or two, a link, and a bracketed credit. In 1998 the masthead promised “News, Opinion, Reviews & Troubleshooting.” From 1999 Dana Baggett, “Ace Reporter,” filed the short wire-style items that let the site post a dozen things a day, and from 2003 to 2006 the logo carried a pirate flag and the line “We don’t do Windows.” By 2008 the masthead read “Apple Macintosh News, Commentary, Reviews & Troubleshooting,” which is the line this site keeps.

The site published through 2009 and stayed online until 2013. Everything here is either from that run or written since.

The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine captured the site’s monthly archive pages from May 1997 to September 2009, with one gap: April 1998 to April 1999 was never captured. Those 128 pages were fetched, parsed into 13,538 items with their links, bylines and dates intact, loaded into a database, and sorted into eighteen categories. Three generations of markup survive, which is why every item wears an era badge: 1997–98 1999–2004 2004–09

Nothing was rewritten. Headlines and bodies appear as they were published, 1997 items included, where the parser sometimes split or joined paragraphs; those are left alone. Every archive item links to its Wayback original, and old links inside the text point at the capture from their own date so a 2001 link resolves to the 2001 page.

In September 2026 the site began publishing again, in the voice the archive taught: one item, one thing; the fact in the first sentence; “we” for the editors and “you” for the reader; a link on the noun; a credit in brackets. New items carry the 2026 badge and, unlike the old ones, a numbered list of sources, at least five per item, each a primary or major source that was read before it was cited.

There are 10 so far. They sit in the same categories, on the same cards, in the same lists as the 13,538 items before them, because an item is an item.

Bill Fox, founder, publisher and editor. The unsigned house voice of the early years was his; from late 2004 his name appears as a bracketed credit on the hands-on reports, the commentaries and the daily deals.

Dana Baggett, Ace Reporter, bylined from May 1999 to December 2007. The Dark Side, the Internet beat, Apple’s finances and the schools, in fifty-seven words a time.

Contributors, tipsters and readers who wrote in are credited by name where the original did, and each has a page of their own where the credits add up.

Today. The site is run by Bryce Bayens, independently of its founders. To reach the site, see the contact page.

Set in the system typeface on a 980-point column, after apple.com. The wordmark and the icons are 1984 Macintosh vocabulary redrawn as tiles. Blue means a link; the four era tints mean when. There are no shadows, no gradients and no dark mode. The archive lives in Postgres; the pages are built with Next.js and served by Vercel. Full text search runs on the same index the parser built.

Estab. Dec. 28, 1995.