Recently I returned to my childhood home, which is slowly being cleaned out for an eventual move, and in tidying my old bedroom I unearthed a dusty but still-working (sort-of; we’ll get to that) iPod ...

Apple's iPod devices marked a generation. The early 2000s music player was responsible for a digital revolution, and it shaped how we listen to music in the 21st century. Throughout the early 2000s, ...