![]() ![]() ![]() I was so relieved that I was entirely unharmed from that incident, but absolutely gutted that my most prized possession was gone. Or, at least that’s what would’ve been the case had it not been stolen from me while I waited for the bus to take my to my part-time job at the Gap. In one pocket was my iPod, and in the other was Motorola RAZR V3c (thank you 3 year phone contracts). Once again, that thing went everywhere with me. Double the storage in a slimmer body, yes please. That’s when I upgraded to the 120 GB iPod Classic. The battery would die after 4 hours, the click wheel was a bit mushy, and the screen was scratched to hell and had developed some nasty black lines. While that iPod was the first “real” piece of technology I had ever owned, I arguably felt more attached the FedEx box that it came in, and that corrugated cardboard box was something that I held onto for years.įast forward to 2010, and my iPod was beginning to get a little long in the tooth. Gone were the days of mixed CDs and hello click wheel. ![]() I can’t tell you how many countless hours were spent loading up that 60 GB hard drive with all of the “legally” “purchased” music that I could get my hands on. I felt so cool, walking to school every morning, blasting The Used and Rise Against straight into my ear canals. Everyone else was still using iPod Minis, but I, I had that iPod Video. It was sleek and sexy, and unlike any other piece of technology I had ever seen or owned up to that point. Opening it up, my 14 year old brain was absolutely melting. I had no idea what was in that small FedEx package, but I was excited. So he purchased two - one for my older brother and myself - had them engraved, and shipped them internationally from India to us in Canada. After begging my mom for one for a year or two to no avail (she thought that they were too expensive, and she wasn’t wrong), her younger brother/the cool uncle in our family decided that he wouldn’t stand by and let his two nephews carry CD binders around all day. My first iPod was the fifth-gen iPod Video. mp3 player in the early aughts, and what helped make Apple into the juggernaut that it is today. Last week, after 20 years, Apple finally announced that it was discontinuing the iPod - the brand that arguably defined what it meant to be an. ![]()
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