Hains created his first "Macintoshages" in 1997. The term was coined from a motley formation of words such as “machin” (French for ‘thing’), machine, Macintosh, Mac Luhan, the Mac Miche mother and other analogies. Macintoshage is a facility designed for bringing computer based texts and images closer as well as manipulating them, those latter being linked to various themes. These multi-window/text-image Macintosh arrangements were displaying the screen as well as computer tools. In an innovative way, texts and images were there the source for a project in constant progress: they could be virtually pasted or unpasted, opened in accordance with current affairs or even combined in the same way the unconscious mind would act in the process of dreaming.