2001 does 2022

This wasn’t cool at the time

“What’s that? It looks like a hearing aid” was the reaction of my friends when I turned up to the pub with this thing. It’s a pretty sturdy brick of metal that you can hear the hard drive whirring into action when you play a song. It is still using the original hard drive and battery, and you can sync music to it using rhythmbox on linux.

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A mechanical scroll wheel and the UI that changed everything. iPod 1st Generation.