I’m never getting rid of my first MP3 player
I’m never getting rid of my first MP3 player
www.theverge.com I’m never getting rid of my first MP3 player
All hail the iRiver iHP-120, a maximalist gadget from another era (2004, specifically).
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The spring of my freshman year of college, my mom sold my drum set. I used the money to buy an MP3 player. Sorry. A multi-codec jukebox.
There is a certain type of person who, when faced with a sleek, friendly, easy-to-use Apple product, will rail on about all the features it doesn’t have, all the things you can’t do with it, all the ways the walled garden is a trap.
This person has existed since the dawn of time. I used to be that guy. I still am, sometimes, but I used to be, too. And so, in the spring of 2004, when the iPod had been out for two and a half years, I spent $330 on ...
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