Apple’s iPod Turns 25: Here’s the Song Catalog That Rode wit You - CNET
Back in 2001, some of the top songs included Nelly’s Ride Wit Me, Fallin’ by Alicia Keys and Ms. Jackson by Outkast. When people wanted to listen to those songs but weren’t near a car stereo or their home audio equipment, most carried music with them on skip-prone portable CD players, boomboxes or maybe even a homemade mix cassette.
Sure, some early adopters were already carrying a small collection of songs on a portable MP3 player (MP3s: the new-new thing!) like the Diamond Rio or Creative’s Nomad Jukebox. But these weren’t common, and you didn’t see them that often. There was no ubiquitous sign yet that the times were changing musically in a digital direction.
Enter Apple in November with its original iPod, a small hard drive encased in smooth white plastic that could stash between 1,000 and 2,000 songs, a sum that seemed godly at the time.
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