Hello & welcome to another GK Nugget . This time we’re travelling 15 years into the past where on this very day the portable music player industry changed forever. No prizes for guessing, 23 rd October 2001 was when Steve Jobs unveiled the very 1 st iPod … and the rest, as they say, is history. Over its 15 year journey, can you guess how many times has the iPod evolved? Available now with a maximum memory size of 128 GB , the 1 st edition had a capacity of only 5 GB & was marketed as being able to offer “ 1,000 songs in your pocket ”. Nobody expected Apple to release a MP3 player. In fact, the 1 st generation iPod received much criticism ranging from its US$399 price to the scroll wheel and its lack of Windows compatibility. (Windows compatible iPods came out in July 2002). The name "iPod" was inspired by “ 2001: A Space Odyssey ” – the 1968 epic science fiction movie produced & directed by Stanley Kubrick. The immortal line: “...