Tuesday, April 29th 2008

History recorded

Aah, those were the days; recording songs off the radio on a Sunday afternoon, making mixtapes for girlfriends, loading favorite computer games (yes, computer games on cassette), how times have changed.

There’s a great online celebration of the design of our humble cassette to be found at www.tapedeck.org where you can search through galleries of cassettes by different manufacturers, tape length and quality.

Call me a geek but I find this kind of nostalgia for ephemera quite captivating.

Posted by Richard on Tuesday 29th of April 2008 at 3:56pm

Tags: Great Design, Interesting . . . or not, Music and events

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There was a brand of tape called ICM!

Posted by Tasha on Tuesday 29th of April 2008 at 5:11pm

I still have one of those tapes, just waiting for you to recreate it as a playlist on my nano. How times have changed, the Top 40 on Sunday just isn't the same anymore.

P.S. How many girlfriend tapes did you make, I thought I was special?

Posted by One of the Girlfriends! on Thursday 1st of May 2008 at 12:05pm

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