The FIRST iPod shuffle from 2005! Vintage Tech!

Oh my goodness, look what we have here. This is the original iPod Shuffle. Look at this thing, ah, it's so, so fun. Look at this, PC plus Mac, 120 songs, and this is the 512 megabyte, megabyte. Now that I'm thinking about it, when I was showing this to my friend Ro, I think I might have actually said 512 gigs, like that's not accurate. All right, Ro, I have something to show you. What is it, what is it? Do you know what this is? The first thing I thought was like a flash drive, like a flash drive lanyard, you know, when you wear them and you got your little flash drive and you're, you know, but I was like, it's pretty big, but then it has all these little buttons, so I was like, it's a remote. It's an iPod Shuffle, do you remember? Oh my God, I remember an iPod Shuffle. For as good as she is at baking, she lacks that knowledge in tech, but I was quite surprised because when she first saw this, she was kind of on the right track, so yeah, here it is. I like the packaging too, it kind of has that iPod feel, like the old iPod commercials. It has the bright colors, and here on the back, it says, what's Shuffle? Your favorite songs in a different order every time. Why Shuffle? Sometimes it's good to mix things up. With iPod Shuffle, your music is never the same experience twice. How does it know which song to play next? Can it read your mind? Can it read your moods? Load it up, put it on, see where it takes you. 120 songs, a million different ways. And if you wanna unshuffle, you can switch off shuffle mode and you can play your playlist. So I like that it has all the features over here. It holds up to 120 songs at near CD quality, up to 12 hours of continuous playback with rechargeable lithium-ion battery. It weighs 0.78 ounces and is just .33 inches thin. Plays AAC, MP3, Waves, and Audible formats. It also includes an iPod lanyard, earphones, and iTunes for Mac and Windows. So this has macOS 10 support version 10.28, Windows 2000, or Windows XP Home, iTunes 5.0 or later. Let's open it up. Look at you, little Shuffle. Oh, you're so cute. It's got the earpods and the lanyard. It's also got some documentation too, I think, which I actually didn't even look at. Oh, it's got the little ear covers if you wanna put those on. Wow, I didn't even know that was in here. Got the user guide, shows you how to use it, just in case you can't figure it out. So here's a little card that shows you what everything means and how to control it. Here's how we can check the battery. Good, low, very low. Do not disconnect when it's orange. And there's the air lights. Wow, so many goodies in here. So here's the little Shuffle. Here's the Shuffle lanyard. And this just pops right off like your little USB. And you can now wear it. Like, I wanna get a nice chain for this. Basically, like, make it fashion. Here's the earphones, earpods. I don't think I would call them earpods yet. They definitely do not have as ergonomic of a design as they do now. So this was kind of what started it all for the iPod Shuffle. So this first generation, it was released January 11th, 2005. And that was at Macworld. This did have a one gigabyte model, which would allow you to hold about 240 songs. And like I said, this is the 512 meg version. There was a second generation. This was released on September 12th, 2006. So this one had like the little belt clip and Apple was claiming that this was the world's smallest MP3 player. I remember this one and it was just so cute. Now to build on this, Apple then released some color versions. So that was on January 30th, 2007. They had four colors. There was the pink, orange, green, and blue. In addition to the silver color. I think, I think I might have one of these. Okay, I definitely had one. But this I think was like the iPod Nano. I actually don't even remember what this is. This was not the Shuffle. I thought this was Shuffle. This is Nano. Little tiny. Moving on to September 5th, 2007, Apple introduced four more colors. There was a product red version, along with a turquoise, lavender, and a mint green. And then sadly, all the other colors were discontinued. Then on February 19th, 2008. Oh my God, this is so fascinating. This is like the history of the Shuffle. They introduced a two gig version and this retailed for $69. And it was available in all of the same colors as the one gig model. Look at this third gen iPod Shuffle. That is, I like that one a lot. It's super slick. It kind of looks like a stick of gum, but it also has the little clip on there. This one was kind of cool. I actually do remember trying this. It had voiceover technology. So it allowed the song names and the artist names and album names, plus the playlist context to be spoken in 20 different languages using text to speech. So this was all incorporated into iTunes 8 and 9. September 9th, 2009, Apple introduced three new colors, pink, blue, and green for that iPod Shuffle. They had a four gig model. We're really upping the Shuffle game here. So moving on to the fourth gen, September 1st, 2010. This was the fourth and final generation that was released. It had the return of the clickable track and volume buttons from the first two generations. The control pad is 18% larger than the second gen iPod Shuffle. Oh, oh, oh, on September 12th, 2012, Apple had an event to formally introduce the iPhone 5 as well as the new iPod lineup, and the iPod Shuffle remains unchanged, except for seven new color options, silver or black with a black control pad, or green, blue, pink, yellow, and purple with a white control pad. September 10th, to coincide with the release of the iPhone 5S, the slate color option was replaced with space gray. And then on July 15th, 2015, they released six new colors, blue, pink, silver, gold, space gray, and product red. And then sadly, on July 27th, 2017, the iPod Shuffle along with the iPod Nano was discontinued. What a fun little device. Quite a long run, actually. Quite surprised, but here it is. This is the original iPod Shuffle. This is what got us started down that path. So here's all the buttons. So this is where you turn off the Shuffle. You can turn on the Loop, Shuffle, and test the battery, which it's obviously dead. I should charge it and see if it works. So there it is, iPod Shuffle. Let me know if there's any other cool, old school Apple tech that you'd like me to check out. Also, do you have any tech that works that you don't want and you wanna send to me? Let me know, it could be featured here in a video. Thank you guys so much for watching. If you guys haven't already, be sure to like this video and comment with what your favorite piece of old tech is. 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