Apple first introduced its iconic white iPod in the fall of 2001, then gave it the technology buddy it needed -- the iTunes store -- in the spring of 2003, which was when I bought my first iPod. It was heavy, a third-generation unit with a built-in spinning hard drive and four buttons across the middle, and it irrevocably changed the way I consumed and listened to music.

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