The iPod says goodbye:Apple has announced the end of production of its iconic music player from the 2000s. Here are 8 typical objects from this period that we all owned, and which have since disappeared.
Who hasn't felt the portable music revolution coming when they discovered the mp3 player? Finally freed from the discman who was taking up space and forcing us to carry the same disc with us all day, music lovers have seen their listening habits completely changed by the arrival of this little device!
Even if the iPod arrived in 2001 , not everyone could jump on it, given its price, and digital music players were still popular even after its release.
All you had to do was fill your player with compressed music from our computer , therefore from our own collection, to listen to them anywhere.
Smartphones and the evolution of the iPod have thrown the mp3 player into oblivion.
This laptop was incredibly popular when it was released! The mobile phone produced by Nokia, wowed the crowds with its various colors, round design, and built-in games.
Approximately 126 million copies sold out before it was taken off the market.
It had 35 ringtones (huge for the time), and four games (Snake II Pair II, Space Impact, and Bantumi). It also allowed to send much longer text messages than its predecessors.
But above all, the 3310 is INDESTRUCTIBLE. This phone has not experienced planned obsolescence, and anything could happen to it without it breaking down!
The brand even released a revamped version of this phone in 2017, but the charm of the 2000s is irreplaceable.
The Playstation 2 sparked a rush upon its release, the likes of which have rarely been seen since. It is the most sold console in the whole world (in 2011 it reached 150 million copies sold worldwide)!
It succeeded the Playstation in 2000, and was the first console to integrate a DVD player .
Technically it offers, in addition to its multimedia side, a much better graphics card, a DualShock 2 controller with its analog sticks, 2 front USB ports, and a futuristic design that breaks with other consoles.
Many games have become cult:GTA , Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 , Silent Hill 2 , God of War 1 and 2 , Shadow of the Colossus.
Production of the PS2 stopped in 2012.
This little accessory quickly became an essential for 2000s geeks! A small robot in the shape of an eye that was plugged into its central unit and which acted as a camera.
Not always handy, and of questionable quality, it allowed at the time to talk by videoconference, to record videos at home and send them, to talk live to someone.
In short, everything you can do today with...a camera built into computers . The fact of introducing the camera in smartphones or tablets or computers, has completely put aside the webcam which is only an old memory.
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Remember, if you were a kid in the 2000s, you couldn't escape the Pogs! The small cardboard discs on which appeared drawings or characters, invaded the playgrounds at the end of the 90s and the beginning of the 2000s.
Like collectible cards, they were also made to play:they were bought in tobacconists just like Pokemon cards or Paninis.
More than 300 million Pogs covers were sold in France:a dazzling success, but which did not last.
If the Panini cards and the Pokemon managed to renew themselves, the Pogs bored their users and disappeared. In 2020, the Pogs are revived, but the success is quite confidential compared to the original version. Hope may come from NFTs!
First stars of the company, the "BlackBerry" quickly became ultra popular in the early 2000s.
Their little extra:their surface keyboard which makes it possible to send messages much more quickly than with telephones with numeric keys, and above all the messaging specific to the telephone, which allows users to form what was not yet called "a community" around messages that only they could send to each other:BBMs (BlackBerryMessenger). These messages were not billed as SMS.
Unfortunately the arrival of the iPhone has broken BlackBerry's hegemony:keyboards are no longer necessary when they become tactile with competitors. The Canadian brand is trying to renew itself but cannot satisfy its fans and keep its DNA, while modernizing.
The production of the BlackBerry stops in 2016.
Before Google Maps or Ways, there was the road map... But between the two, another tool drove motorists crazy:the GPS suction cup, the one that was stuck on the windshield to watch the road, the most known among them remaining the Tom Tom.
It allows real-time mapping of the place where you are, and therefore to move in a guided way.
Smartphones and their applications have put an end to the need for a full-fledged GPS in your car.
