{"id":515,"date":"2006-10-23T20:45:49","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T00:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zibland.com\/blog\/?p=515"},"modified":"2006-10-23T20:45:49","modified_gmt":"2006-10-24T00:45:49","slug":"happy-birthday-ipod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, iPod!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, 5 years ago, the iPod was first introduced by Steve Jobs. It was meant to become (and did a very good job becoming) the market leader for portable music. It&#8217;s so strange to watch this video and listen to His Steveness say &#8220;iPod&#8221; instead of &#8220;The iPod,&#8221; and see what stone-age technology was available before the iPod. Funniest to watch, however, is the crowd&#8217;s stony silence as the iPod is announced. What a contrast to today, when a new product announcement by Apple is met with a huge applause. The iPod really was Apple&#8217;s modern ticket to ride, I guess.<\/p>\n<h2>Original iPod Announcement<\/h2>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kN0SVBCJqLs]<\/p>\n<p>Also of intrest are the videos of the OS X announcement back in January 2000:<\/p>\n<h2>Part One<\/h2>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ko4V3G4NqII]<\/p>\n<h2>Part Two<\/h2>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6-fkYFV7rOY]<\/p>\n<h2>Part Three<\/h2>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2GkoAa5718Y]<\/p>\n<p>Very cool Apple stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, 5 years ago, the iPod was first introduced by Steve Jobs. It was meant to become (and did a very good job becoming) the market leader for portable music. It&#8217;s so strange to watch this video and listen to His Steveness say &#8220;iPod&#8221; instead of &#8220;The iPod,&#8221; and see what stone-age technology was available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,48,11],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-general","tag-computers","tag-life-in-general","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}