Do you remember how magical it was?
Mobys role in the iPods folklore might add to that magic.
The 51-year-old wistfully remembers the launch of iTunes and how useful it was for cataloging his music.
Clearly, they would have come up with the idea without me.
Because they really didnt want to make devices, and I just kept pushing them to.
Culturally, it felt like the culmination of this incredibly optimistic era, he says.
Wed just had eight years of Bill Clinton and the world felt so largely benign.
It all, in a weird way, kind of made sense.
From a personal viewpoint, he cant believe how quickly the time has passed.
I remember when 2002 seemed like an unimaginably far time like, really far away.
Now its like a distant past.
Technology is, obviously, the perfect physical encapsulation of this: Remember those multicoloredclamshell laptopsthat Apple had?
Now they seem old and clunky, like a weird pair of sneakers.
But at the time, they just represented the future.
