Editing Serial Experiments Lain (section)

===Apple computers===
''Lain'' contains extensive references to [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] computers, as the brand was used at the time by most of the creative staff, such as writers, producers, and the graphical team.<ref name="HK" /> As an example, the title at the beginning of each episode is announced by the Apple computer [[speech synthesis]] program [[PlainTalk]], using the voice ''"Whisper"'', e.g. <code>say -v Whisper "Weird: Layer zero one"</code>. Tachibana Industries, the company that creates the NAVI computers, is a reference to Apple computers: the [[tachibana orange]] is a  Japanese variety of mandarin orange. NAVI is the abbreviation of [[Knowledge Navigator]], and the HandiNAVI is based on the [[Apple Newton]], one of the world's first [[Personal digital assistant|PDAs]]. The NAVIs are seen to run "Copland OS Enterprise" (this reference to [[Copland (operating system)|Copland]] was an initiative of [[Chiaki J. Konaka|Konaka]], a declared Apple fan),<ref name="HK" /> and Lain's and Alice's NAVIs closely resembles the [[Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh]] and the [[iMac G3]] respectively. The HandiNAVI programming language, as seen on the seventh episode, is a dialect of [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]]; the Newton also used a Lisp dialect ([[NewtonScript]]). The program being typed by Lain can be found in the [[Carnegie Mellon University|CMU]] [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] repository;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/lang/lisp/code/fun/life.cl|title=Conway's Game of Life|publisher=[[Carnegie Mellon University]]|access-date=June 24, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090722175621/https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/lang/lisp/code/fun/life.cl|archive-date=July 22, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref> it is a simple implementation of [[Conway's Game of Life]] in [[Common Lisp]].

During a series of disconnected images, an iMac and the [[Think Different]] advertising slogan appears for a short time, while the ''Whisper'' voice says it.<ref name="INFORN">''Serial Experiments Lain'', Layer 11: INFORNOGRAPHY.</ref> This was an unsolicited insertion from the graphic team, also Mac-enthusiasts.<ref name="HK" /> Other subtle allusions can be found: "Close the world, Open the nExt" is the slogan for the ''Serial Experiments Lain'' video game. [[NeXT]] was the company that produced [[NeXTSTEP]], which later evolved into [[macOS|Mac OS X]] after Apple bought NeXT. Another example is "To Be Continued." at the end of episodes 1–12, with a blue "B" and a red "e" on "Be"; this matches the original logo of [[Be Inc.]], a company founded by ex-Apple employees and NeXT's main competitor in its time.<ref name="Be">{{cite web|url=http://www.beatjapan.org/mirror/www.be.com/|title=Be, Inc.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031128123907/http://www.beincorporated.com/|archive-date=November 28, 2003|access-date=November 27, 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref>