Celebrate the iPod’s anniversary with this amazing Apple Music Easter egg
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Macworld Friday marks the 25th anniversary of the iPod . If I could, I’d pull out my old iPod out of storage and give it a once over on this occasion, but sadly it’s long gone. However, Apple provides the next best thing: a virtual iPod on the Apple Music website. This Apple Music iPod isn’t in plain sight. It’s hidden, and to find it, you first have to use the Apple Music website, not the Music app on your Mac, iPhone, or iPad. Then you have to go to a webpage that produces an error message, which means you can’t just click on any link on, say, the Apple Music home page. Fortunately, we have an Apple Music error page link you can use to see the iPod for yourself; if you are an Apple Music user, copy the link and paste it into a browser, because clicking the link launches the Music app, where you can’t see the iPod. Here’s the link: https://music.apple.com/us/MichiModsStuff (you can also right-click the link and open in a new browser tab). Foundry The displayed iPod is interactive. To use the clickwheel on a Mac, cursor over it and then click and drag. On an iPhone or iPad, it becomes a meta experience where today meets yesterday and you’re suddenly using the iPod on your device’s display. It’s not clear if this is a event-only stunt that will eventually go away or if it’s here to stay. I certainly hope it’s the latter, but it case it’s not, check it out before time runs out. You can also watch the iPod introduction hosted by Steve Jobs below (I wasn’t there, but you can see my wife in the YouTube thumbnail, sitting behind then-Macworld editors Jason Snell, Rick LePage, and Jonathan Seff, and next to Philip Michaels).