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Technical innovations of the past that we use ubiquitously today. Pictured below is the Acoustograph:

In 1925, the Acoustograph was a music downloading device well ahead of its time. The upper class city families that owned these devices would request a musical composition with the Morse key, down telegraph wire. Todays equivalent of this pioneer hardware, are well known applications such as iTunes and Napster.

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