2008 - The iTunes Music Store reached 100 million applications downloaded.
2009 - The iTunes Music Store reached 1.8 billion applications downloaded.
My how time has changed. I have a large record collection that I inherited from my grandparents. I also have their 8-track player and tapes. I have cassette tapes from my childhood. And CDs from my teenage years. I now also have an iPod that holds about 2 hours of music (it's a tiny 2GB one). I can go from listening to a record or cassette tape at home, to a CD in the car, to my iPod on an airplane. Gotta love technology.
In the show I directed this summer one of the characters, a teacher, talks about how her students chose a Taylor Swift CD as their contribution to a time capsule. The teacher laughs that she brought in her Beatles' 45, and that they'd never seen a record before. Ah, the joys of being born before 2000. I can't wait for the day that my nieces and nephews realize that their parents (and their aunt) weren't even born in this century. And I wonder what else they won't recognize in the future.
What's your favorite way to listen to music?
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