Do You Remember The iPod Shuffle?
Blast from the past, 2007. Technology has changed the way we listen to music forever
The Apple iPod shuffle.
The 4th generation redesign of this device manufactured by Apple inc. came on general sale back in September 2010. A handy little piece of music tech (as it was then) providing 8GB storage of MP3 stereo music, clipping easily onto your belt and delivering music through 3.5mm jack earplugs. Boasting a rechargeable solid-state battery that could be recharged through a USB interfacing wire (through which new MP3 music could also be downloaded also from a computer via the iTunes platform.) It was discontinued on 27th July 2017.
The photographs below are what I discovered just the other week whilst doing a considerable uncluttering of our home. Discovering my old iPod shuffle was quite a find.
Talk about memories from the past. Flooding back came the thoughts of the music that I loved to listen to during times when I hadn’t learned to drive a car and used to have to waste hours waiting for buses to arrive at bus stops in the icy cold belting down rain before and after 12-hours of nursing, followed by grumpy drivers who drove the buses as if they believed they were the next generation of Grand Prix racers. Listening to music on my iPod…
