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This Is What iTunes Would Have Looked Like Back In 1892

This Is What iTunes Would Have Looked Like Back In 1892

If Apple Computers had been founded over a hundred years ago, not by Steve Jobs, but by Sir Digby Chicken Caesar, iTunes might very well have looked like this: the theatrophone, an 1890s invention that allowed you to “download” music into your living room, just fifty centimes per song.

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