The 10th anniversary celebrated the release of the MP3 player

It is an MP3 player now overflowing in the streets and becoming indispensable to our lives, but it became clear that this year will mark the 10th anniversary of its release.

Currently not only large capacity, but also MP3 players etc. that can play and browse videos, send and receive mails, etc. are on sale, but it seems that the situation is quite different from the beginning at the time of release.

Details are as below.
Ten years old: the world's first MP3 player | Register Hardware

According to this article, the first MP3 player released in the world seems to be "MPMan F 10" released in March 1998 by Saehan Information Systems of South Korea.

The size was 91 × 70 × 16.5 (millimeter), and the size was the same as the mainstream MD player at that time and the capacity was 32 MB, which means that it was as little as I could imagine now.

By the way it is a price you care about,According to this article, The price in Japan is very expensive with 32MB model as 39,800 yen and 64MB model as 59,800 yen. It's a price that you can buy a large capacity model of iPod touch or iPod Classic right now, but the progress of technology is amazing.

I will be wondering what kind of evolution the MP3 player will have in the future.