This is killing me. I'm certain I had an MP3 player well before the empeg. I was listening to MP3s on my computer in around 1997. I so clearly remember only having something like a dozen tracks, including "Oh, What a Night" and "Stairway to Heaven." I listened to those over and over again just because I could, and I remember being amazed that these files were only a tenth of the equivalent WAV files! It's just incredible to me to look at a micro SD card today and think about the percentage of space that my MP3s took up on my parents' computer

But I'm sure I had a player before the empeg...I must have! I certainly listened to MP3s all the time in 1999. It was my freshman year of college and the year that Napster broke out. EVERYone listened to MP3s. Did I really not have a player until I put the empeg in my car the following summer?.....