iPod is a brand of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple Inc. and launched on October 23, 2001 (2001-10-23). The product line-up includes the hard drive-based iPod Classic, the touchscreen iPod Touch, the video-capable iPod Nano, and the compact iPod Shuffle. This site holds lots of content regarding all these.
Take your time and click around.
The first Apple “i” product was the iMac, which came out 10 years ago this month (in a choice of flavours). It stood then for “internet” because it signified that all new Macs would offer built-in internet connectivity. A great marketing move, as it turned out.
I really hate the way that other companies all jumped on the bandwagon – even the BBC, which uses “iPlayer” for its online media playback. Can’t they think of anything original after 10 years?