The vision here is huge. And I think that like one of the Zoom features we're going to talk about is the thing where you could send music to people. >> This was the age of mix tapes and CD burning and dear friend writing little messages and Sharpie on the little thing.And I I just opened like a CD um >> case from that time period uh not that long ago. And it was like my best friend from high school who's still my best friend today just going like for V. >> Yeah.>> Love A. And I was like >> that's great. Do ...

November 2006, the Zoom launches. One of the main features was that you could send tracks to other Zunes nearby. Uh sort of a like proto airdrop kind of situation.Um but the best part was you could play if I sent you a track fee, you could play it three times over 3 days. >> That was it. >> Stupid.>> And Neil, what was the feature called. >> It was called squirting. You could squirt the tracks to each other there.You that literally in the in the marketing material. on sporting. ...

I brought a Zoom. I brought a very very special Zoom. Uh >> this is a period of weird exclusives across the industry.Somehow the Zoom team decided that what would save the Zoom in 2008 is producing 500 limited edition Joy Division Zoons. >> You know, Joy Division famously the biggest band in the world. >> Everyone has a t-shirt.Very few people have the records. It's like basically how that goes. So they were like, "We're just going to put the unknown pleasure sticker on a Zoom and then people will be confus ...

So, we you and I both brought Zooms today. Mine >> and I just bought >> I bought a brown >> You bought a brown >> iPod on eBay. >> This is your Zoom like your OG Zoom. Or did you bought this one for the show? >> I bought it on eBay for the show. It was $59. >> Wow. >> And I've spent a lot of time trying to decide if I got a good deal or a terrible deal. >> You know, it retained a surprising amount of its value for being a 20 almost 20-year-old device. >> Right. >> Yeah. >> I was going to say retained a surp ...

It's the early 2000s and all you want to do is listen to some music. Best case scenario, you have the money to afford an iPod and the even more money to afford songs at 99 cents a piece. Worst case scenario, you have like a MP3 player with a dying hard drive that you are desperately trying to keep alive.Maybe you're running around with a binder full of CDs like it's the '90s. Well, I have a better answer. It's a new device from Microsoft and it lets you play music, listen to the radio, watch videos, look at ...

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