I was a sophmore in high school and had gotten a first gen ipod for Christmas. I remember sitting on the bus to cheer at a basketball game and all of the players asking me what the heck I was listening to music on.

I remember the first I pod and actually have a working version sittng on my desk. I remember the ipod being the Jordans of the geek world. Once I had my hands on this baby I knew I had arrived.

I remember showing it to my girlsfriend at the time and say this can hold thousands of CD and she said where do you put the CD in ?

Haha. Yes my first iPod is the first generation iPod nano. And yes it has been kept in the graveyard of drawers for iPod. Well now I moved to the 2nd generation iPod touch and it rocks just as the iPod nano. And also it still works only the battery life sucks.

My original 1st gen iPod was covered by CompUSA’s warranty, so when the battery got weak it was traded for a iPod Photo with no additional cash spent. A few years later, that fell out of my pocket and was run over by a truck – a rather traumatic event. I eventually purchased an iPod Video which still works. Later still, I bought two working 1st gen iPods off of Craigslist – one for me to use as a utilities drive for my various Macs; the other for my wife, new to the ways of Apple. (She’s still learning how to rip and download, however).

I held on to mine until the latest iphone came out this summer. Finally was a good replacement for my needs. The old one still works, and I am my kids now use it.

That was supposed to say 20GB, not 2GB

I received a first gen iPod from my employer as a Christmas gift/bonus in 2001. I was thrilled. And it still works! It currently does light duty in my car, filling in when I don’t feel like dealing with the infernal speaker buzzing caused by my first gen iPhone. I still think it works better than all the subsequent models.

Mine still works and it came in handy when I lost everything on my hard drive. I don’t normally use the hard drive except to recover old songs and nothing on the original Ipod is on any of my current ipods/iphones. I could never replace those songs if I had to.

We still have a 1st generation iPod which is in use at least weekly. It’s big, clunky and wonderful. We bought it in the first few days it was actually in the shops – the (then new) Apple store in the Mall of America but I can’t remember the exact date. The first time I went through airport security with it, I was pulled aside by the National Guardsman they had everywhere around that time as I guess it looked dodgy. We still have the original box.

I still have one with the original software AND I still have parts to fix them. As a matter of fact I probably have one of the biggest boneyard collections of 1G and 2G iPods. Just cant seem to throw the little guys out LOL

Mine was a 60GB third generation Ipod Photo… It was fat and heavy in comparison with the actual ones.. and not ideal for go running :D … but I loved it!

My first one was the first generation Shuffle. I initially bought another mp3 player with the same (or even greater) storage size for half the prize only to realize at home that its horrible user experience won’t make me happy.

So I went back to the store and said it doesn’t work and bought my Shuffle. Not only I loved the simple design and blindly clickable buttons. When I installed iTunes I realised that there is something called Podcasts. Video-Podcasts made me buy my second iPod 32GB with Video.

And this christmas I will buy my first mac. It will be a 27” iMac and I will use it with EyeTV as my main tv set. I’m still hating Apples pricing policy, but I sure love their hardware. I have surrendered.

Wow, 8 years has surely made a big difference in the world of music lovers. And the iPod has surely evolved for the better! Thanks for posting this article, it brought back memories :-)