The original. Illustrator 1.0 was born out of Adobe’s need to demonstrate the capabilities of the language. Unlike today’s colorful, icon-driven workspace, version 1.0 was starkly minimal. It ran on the Apple Macintosh (the only computer with a GUI suitable for design) and featured only a grayscale workspace. Users drew paths using the Pen Tool (which worked fundamentally the same as today) and Bezier curves. There was no color fill—only black and white outlines. The interface consisted of a simple drawing window and a separate floating toolbox.
Whether you cut your teeth on Illustrator 3.0 or just launched CC 29.0, you are using a tool built on nearly 40 years of design history. adobe illustrator versions by year
The integration. This version improved Creative Cloud Libraries further, added Stock Assets (search/insert Adobe Stock vector images directly), and introduced Smoother Drawing (gesture-based path editing). It also added Export for Screens (batch-export artboards as PNG, JPG, or SVG at multiple scales). The original