Yeah, I’m tired. I haven’t been getting enough sleep lately, and staring at a computer monitor for hours gets me tired. Also I forget my posture, and my back hurts. Haha. Well actually all of that’s really my fault LOL.
At least I have good music. And speaking of good music! Woohoo! The great iPod!
2001: Apple iPod. There were MP3 players before the iPod. They just weren’t very good. Most MP3 devices stored about eight songs and had a calculator aesthetic rather than high-tone finesse. Then Steve Jobs and Co. came along offering 1,000 songs in a clean, white box the size of a deck of cards. The iPod wildfire didn’t catch full flame, though, until the third-generation model boosted the storage capacity and refined the interface. At that point, Hipsters bought in, and Apple hasn’t looked back: by 2005, more than eight out of 10 digital music players sold at retail were iPods.
I can’t believe it’s been 6 years since the iPod was first released. And now it’s still THE mp3 player. Kinda funny though, looking at how it was in that picture, coz I see a lot of knock-off iPod-wannabe mp3 players out there that look just like that. In fact if you didn’t look twice, you’d think they’re actual iPods heheh.
Well before I got my first one (it was a 1st gen Nano), I had a 128MB mp3 player. When I bought that thing, it cost me the equivalent of about US$80 rofl. Back then, mp3 players weren’t even so popular yet, and I was among the only 2 in class who had them. It got me about 24 songs at a time, which I thought was a good deal. I’d change the songs every night and didn’t consider it a hassle at all.
When I got my 2GB Nano, everything changed. I couldn’t imagine going back to the 128MB player anymore. And soon I was having trouble with the 2Gig one too, since changing the contents seemed like such a sad concept. When the LCD broke, I got an 8GB one, and fast forward…I now have a 60GB one haha. But I didn’t buy it.
I mean, it truly was revolutionary, considering that I can’t imagine what I’d do without it anymore. Or maybe that’s just me being obsessive. Hmm.
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