So have we. And thanks to [Cabel] of at Panic.com, we have a rare glimpse at a prototype first generation Apple iPod. In the days before you could just stream your favorite music directly from ...

The display ended up being almost the perfect size to replace the iPod’s original screen, and since it uses composite video, only took two wires to drive from the Pi. To interface with the ...

Released in late 2001, about eight months after the arrival of iTunes, the original Apple iPod music player featured a mini version of the game Breakout. Breakout was published in 1976 by Atari ...

However, the iPod wasn't always so pocket-sized and easy to carry around. Apparently it was once the size of a grocery store slab cake. App developer Panic has revealed images of an original ...

The original iPod is considered iconic, but Apple has bullishly cut support for legacy technologies over the years. Apple has made controversial moves, like axing the headphone jack, citing a ...

The one that started it all. First released on October 23, 2001, the original iPod had a 5GB memory, which was a moving disk not an SSD, and a Firewire connection to plug into your Mac.

Kim: But sales have been in decline for over a decade. How did the iPod go from being one of the most popular gadgets to being basically nonexistent? In 1999, the US music industry had its biggest ...

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What if Apple took the same approach and made a 20th Anniversary iPod? Maybe excluding the weird delivery. The original iPod focused on its storage capacity and convenience, not its sound quality ...