20 years later, the iPod remains to be my favourite gadget

20 years later, the iPod remains to be my favourite gadget

Age is a blessing — but it surely’s additionally fucking terrifying. Particularly after I realized it had been 20 years for the reason that iPod was launched.

As soon as I finished hyperventilating, I understood this was okay. Why? As a result of the iPod modified my life. And, to this very day, I imagine it’s the best gadget ever created.

It didn’t start that manner although. Earlier than I bought my arms on an iPod, I believed MP3 gamers have been silly.

The 12 months is 2005. I’m about 16 and I’ve been constructing a CD assortment for a number of years (one I truly nonetheless have, shout out the Marantz CD6007).

I’d given up on transportable CD gamers a number of years beforehand, primarily as a result of they skipped on a regular basis and have been too massive to hold round — particularly as I did handbook labor on the weekends.

So, round 2001, I saved as much as get myself a teeny-weeny Panasonic MP3 participant.

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