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Found Footage: Original iPod promotional video


Who doesn't enjoy walking down memory lane? Picture it: October 23, 2001 Apple changes the world again but no one realizes it. That's the day Apple introduced the first iPod ever, and produced the above video letting people know what the heck an iPod was.

The original iPod had some things I miss on the newer iPods: FireWire support and a physical scroll wheel (oh, how I miss the physical scroll wheel!).

Here's a fun question, how may folks out there had one of the original iPods? You know, before our PC using friends could get in on the party and everyone from the Queen of England to the Pope could be counted amongst iPod users.

[via Chris Pirillo]

Who doesn't enjoy walking down memory lane? Picture it: October 23, 2001 Apple changes the world again but no one realizes it. That's the...
 

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John Coxon

@30 Paul: Of course, you clearly haven't realised that back then the iPod was smaller than the iPod Touch is now, and so your argument that the old iPod was better because it let you have your entire music library makes little to no sense! The iPod Touch is enough for some people to hold their entire library, and for those people who have more, the iPod Classic is still in production.

October 21 2007 at 11:40 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Geoff

oops, just saw the other post about that.

October 15 2007 at 3:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Geoff

Did you notice he says "Macbook" in the middle of the video? Probably a mis of ibook but a cool name to think about in 2001 eh?

October 15 2007 at 2:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nick

I had one of the origonal ones, and I still have it. I don't use it anymore, but I still have it. I think I actually bought it after the 2nd generation or 3rd came out, because I remember buying a dock for it, and going "how do you plug it into this dock, there's no port on the bottom?"

October 14 2007 at 1:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
retro1011

Used to pay 1000 deutschmark for my 1st gen pod, which must have been one of the first ones over here back then.

Having an iPod back then was way elitist.

October 14 2007 at 7:05 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Bocom

Please don't tell me that I am the only one who saw the new, blue icon for iTunes?

October 14 2007 at 3:45 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Gavin Lapeyre

Had an original and gsve it t a friend it's still in use. The moving wheel sucked in that sand and crap would guunk i up, kind of like the mighty mouse wheel.

October 14 2007 at 1:07 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Zaphod Beeblebrox

Ah, nevermind.

October 13 2007 at 6:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Zaphod Beeblebrox

Does anyone else hear Phil saying "MacBook" at 4:20?

October 13 2007 at 6:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Max

My roommate was using a first generation up until christmas 2005. Thing was made to last.

October 13 2007 at 11:37 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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