iPod
It's from 2001, before you were born.
- Maker
- Apple
- Type
- Portable music player
- Debuted
- 2001
- Note
- '1,000 songs in your pocket'
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About
As of 2026, it's 25 years old.
Apple's iPod landed in 2001 with the now-iconic promise of '1,000 songs in your pocket,' and that scroll wheel made flicking through your music collection weirdly hypnotic. Pair it with the white earbuds and you were basically advertising for Apple while just trying to listen to music on the bus.
It turned the awkward art of the mixtape into a digital playlist and made the act of carrying your entire music library feel like a small superpower. The silhouette dancers in the ads didn't hurt either.
The iPod was the little white box that put a thousand songs in your pocket and quietly set the stage for the phone that would eventually swallow it whole.
