I was a proud ower of the original scrolling wheel iPod!
5gb! - Was amazing!
Sadly it got stolen amongst a load of other stuff whilst on holiday!

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HAD one of the originals? I still HAVE one of the originals. The firewire jack is mostly busted (requiring a setup of paperclips & rubber bands to charge), the screen is scratched to blurry & the battery holds a charge for about 5 minutes, but I still have it.

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I have one. Still use it.
I also have one new in the box.
I miss the physical scroll wheel as well.

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My girlfriend has one, and she got it for free!!

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I still have mine, works fine, i was playing with it the other day. I do agree with you i do miss FireWire as well.

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Still have mine. Keep it in the truck which has an MP3 jack, along with a car power adapter. Have about 1/5th of my library on it.

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I can't say I miss the wheel....this one's all wobbly now, my gen 4 ipod just feels more solid with the touch wheel. I hated the 3rd gen ones though.

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at the time they came out i worked at an apple authorised resellers, they distributors were doing a deal, buy 10, get 1 free. Since i was owed some overtime i got one of the free ones litterally a few days after they started shipping.. loved it... then when the 3rd gen ones came out i got myself a 15gb one and gave my beloved 1st gen to a friend who still has it.. its on its last legs but its done wonders!

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This video is almost prophetic:

"Everyone's gonna want to have one."

"[Our goal was] to design something that could become an icon."

My grandparents were kind enough to buy me one for Christmas when I was in fourth grade! I now have a 60gb video and an iPhone but my 1st gen still works as good as new. The battery hasn't even begun to die yet.

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"Miss the wheel?"

* both hands raised *


...off to Ebay to see what one'll cost me...

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I had one. Oh, how I miss it. Sign me up among those missing the wheel!

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I miss the 3G iPod. 100% touch sensitive.. it may not have worked better, but it damn sure looked better. It was available for PCs, but no iTunes yet at that point.

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As much as I like Phil Schiller, he was terribly scripted in that video.

Other than that, it's neat to see how excited they all were at the time.

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Yep, mine still works, even after loaning it to my brother for a year after I upgraded. Oh, and after it was rained on once when I left it on the back of my car in a parking lot. It s like a little tank.

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Haha... "A super-thin 5GB hard drive!" Pretty funny considering how blocky that original iPod is compared to today's designs.

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I still have one. My son uses it now. It still works perfectly, although I did replace the battery a couple of years ago. I expect it to continue working.

I, too, miss firewire. I can't say I miss the scroll wheel. I have an iPod photo 30GB and in our family we have a couple of first gen nanos, too. The click wheel works fine for me.

What I miss most of all is the SIMPLICITY of the original iPod. It did one thing better than anyone device had ever done: play music. Don't get me wrong, I'm a gadget freak as much as the next guy, maybe more (although most folks on this forum would probably give me a run for my money). But what made the iPod an icon was its groundbreaking approach to to a longtime challenge: finding a good way to carry music.

I found a stash of old equipment -- a cassette walkman, a discman, etc. -- and they look positively decrepit in this day and age. How did we live having to cart around our media and play it on such ungainly equipment!?

Thanks for innovating, Apple!

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I have one still! I had a PC too, thanks to Xplay...does that program still exist?

oh the days of yesterday, I had to buy a firewire cable just to get t he thing to work.

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2001? The first IPOD was before 2001 wasn't it? I swear I had mine before the millenium... The original gen one wasn't before 2001?

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I have one! I use it every day, though it is safely stored in a cabinet hooked up to my home's sound system. Works just like it did the day I took it out of the box. I still have the box. I could package it back and see it exactly how it came to me when it was born.

I loved it and still do. It is like new! Truth be told as much as I love it I'd trade it for an iPod touch or a 160 gigger--even a new nano.

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I have one, and use it maybe 2-3 times a week. I love my wife's new widescreen Nano, but the physical scrollwheel kicks ass.

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