TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 07/02/1979 - eviltoast

Sony introduces the Walkman, the first portable audio cassette player. Over the next thirty years they will sell over 385 million Walkmans in cassette, CD, mini-disc and digital file versions, but later struggled against Apple’s iPod and other new devices.

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    4 months ago

    That design is so crisp, I love it. Buzzy tech startups would pay Teenage Engineering so much money to make exactly this is 2024.