My Antique iPod

February 20, 2009 by
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This was my iPod until a few days ago.  I was one of the first people with an iPod.  I am normally not that trendsetting; my husband had heard about it at his high-tech workplace and got me one.

I remember, I kid you not, riding on Metro and people asking me what it was.  Then Oprah featured it on her ‘Favorite Things’… and Poof!  Magic!  You gotta love Oprah…

The same week Oprah declared the iPod one of her favorite things – 2 different people actually

stopped me on the street to confirm that what I had was ‘the iPod that was on Oprah’.

That was many years ago and believe it or not, my IPod worked until about a month ago.

My husband got one a few years ago that was super-snazzy compared to mine, and much sleeker.

But his died around the same time mine did… like a sweet, old, married couple, or something.

So my husband surprised me with a brand new iPod Nano for Valentines Day (the smaller version of the iPod which only holds about 2,000 songs).  I currently have 26 songs on my iPod so it’s plenty big.  I know, I’m adding songs.

And when he found out that a new battery for his would cost almost the same amount as a new iPod nano- he got himself one too.

 

Look at the difference in these iPods.

And the instructions are a few sentences long.  Pretty amazing, huh?

Reminds me of a trip to Best Buy last year to buy a new cordless home phone.  Woops, sorry, no home phones have cords anymore, unless you get a ‘retro’ one from Pottery Barn…  Back to Best Buy: I was disappointed with the size of their phones- they were all so

small.  I wanted a bigger one so it wouldn’t get lost flushed misplaced.

It’s 2009.  What an incredible world we live in… now if I could just figure out how to sync-up the remote for the TV and the one for the DVD player; now that would be incredible.

 

 

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5 Comments on My Antique iPod

  1. Kate Coveny Hood on Fri, 20th Feb 2009 10:14 pm

    2. I love the part about the phone. I laughed out loud.

  2. jodifur on Sat, 21st Feb 2009 9:59 pm

    3. I had a 1st generation ipod. I got the iphone b/c both my ipod and cell phone died in the same week. Made perfect sense.

  3. Stimey on Sat, 21st Feb 2009 10:45 pm

    4. I have a way old-school iPod too. It still works. And it’s still, like, an inch thick. :)

  4. Jen on Tue, 24th Feb 2009 4:36 pm

    5. LOL! I have the same iPod that your husband had… I was JUST thinking the other day that it looks so… outdated! And to think when I first got it I thought it was the most hi-tech thing EVER. It’s 80GB- that is as much memory as my MacBook… I don’t think I will ever fill it up.

  5. FishyGirl on Tue, 24th Feb 2009 5:24 pm

    6. You know what? I have three phones with cords. One of them is even a *gasp* rotary phone. We don’t have a cordless that isn’t a cell phone. And I had a nano that died, so Santa brought me a new one for Christmas. But I have a lot more songs than you do. Get on it, girl!

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