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Shazam, that subtly ubiquitous music recognition app first launched on August 19, 2002 as a text message service based in the U.K. What do you mean, you don’t remember what you were doing that day?

Me neither, but I remember the first time I used it.

It was pre-smartphone, of course, and you had to dial a number. Now, you may think the number chosen, 2580, is hardly memorable, but look at the dialer on your phone (any phone) and you’ll see those are the numbers that form the central column of digits.

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You didn’t need to learn the number, only the pattern.

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And from its first use, I was hooked. Even though there was usually a fee to pay for each request to find out what’s playing now, it was a brilliantly efficient, wholly reliable service that told you the answer to your musical enquiry in a matter of seconds.

Shazam is now part of Apple, since it was bought in September 2018.

It now does more than 1 billion Shazams a month, Apple says. It’s now baked into the iPhone and it does a lot more,

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