Apple's iPod was invented in 1979 This was one of the first articles featured on core77's site for the day and it immediately caught my attention. Since the iPod was something that directly affected my teen years until now I thought it was interesting that the original concept was made almost 10 years before I was even born. It also lends to the lesson that you can never be sure of when your ideas will come to fruition, so as a new designed you should always be invented and protecting your ideas