October 23 marks 10 years since the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the iPod in 2001. It wasn’t the first MP3 player, but it was the first to take the world by storm. Even if it did cost $399 and only work with Macs at first. Read the original Apple press release here. “What is iPod? The biggest thing about iPod is it holds a thousand songs! Your entire music library fits in your pocket — this was never before possible,” Jobs told media in a low key event on Oct. 23, 2001, ten years ago this weekend. Five gigabytes! The iPod was a rush job. Steve Jobs came up with the idea of competing with what he thought were clunky players at the time. He had his engineering chief Jon Rubenstein and designmeister Jonathan Ive on the project — and they developed the initial device in under a year. Watch GroovyPost this weekend for our memories and perspective on the Apple iPod, digital music and more. We’d love to hear your iPod memories. Or comment below and let us know 10 songs randomly played when you shuffle. We want to hear! Mine coming soon. Courtesy: Wiki Commons
RANDOM LAST 10 SONGS from gina’s iPod Hotel California 6:30 Eagles Hotel California What Is This Thing Called Love? 2:03 Ella Fitzgerald So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry) 3:16 R.E.M. Time After Time 3:08 Jake Shimabukuro I Wanna Go to the Sun (Live) 7:13 Peter Frampton Heretics 3:32 Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha Love in Itself 4:00 Depeche Mode The Singles There’s So Much Music 5:04 The Doors Carmen Suite No. 2: Habanera 2:12 Georges Bizet Carouselambra 10:34 Led Zeppelin In Through the Out Door You Took My Breath Away 3:19 The Traveling Wilburys The Traveling Wilburys Collection Rock Gov’t Mule ISIS Tool Trasmission 0 Alice in Chains Russian Circles Dream Theater Pelican Slayer Amorphis Anathema Dead Soul Tribe Faith No More Led Seppelin Mad Season Opeth Suicidal Tendencies Mouth of Architect Tides Swallow the Sun ….hahaha… far to many to mention. Comment Name * Email *
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