Wednesday, July 1st 2009
Happy 30th birthday to the Walkman
This week, 30 years ago Sony launched the Walkman. This was the first generation of portable music players and was very different to the lightweight and colourful mp3 players that we carry around today.
This article challenges a thirteen year old boy to swap his ipod for the original walkman for one week, see how he got on.
He makes some valued points about the Walkman compared to his ipod – size, colour and ease of use just being a few points he picked up on. What we have to remember is that this was the very beginning of portable music and technology has developed greatly over the past 30 years into something that we recognize today. But if it was not for the genius idea of being able to make our music portable would the ipod and other mp3 players exist today?
Posted by Sally on Wednesday 1st of July 2009 at 10:05am
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