#Music Player

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Video thumbnail — Tiger Hit Clips™ Commercial (2000) (HQ)
Toys 2000–2004

HitClips

Pay $3–4 to hear ONE MINUTE of a pop hit in lo-fi mono from a thumbnail-size cartridge clipped to your backpack. HitClips was the absurd perfect artifact of early-2000s teen culture—clipping a McDonald's-promoted player to your belt loop and trading cartridges with friends like they cost a fortune.

Video thumbnail — What Happened To Winamp?
Tech 1997–2003 peak

Winamp

The media player that ran the MP3 era. Winamp's dark little window with the glowing green equalizer, endlessly customizable skins, and the MilkDrop visualizer pulsing to your music was where a generation organized its first ripped-and-downloaded music collection — and yes, it really whipped the llama's ass.