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- gcnaddict, on 06/29/2009, -15/+800Holy *****, this isn't the onion?
- TimeSpaceMotion, on 06/29/2009, -10/+341I find it hard to believe that a 13 year old who can't figure out a cassette has two sides, can articulate this words this well...
- scarolan, on 06/29/2009, -15/+330This kid is a great writer, he should start a tech blog. I'd love to see him review some other old-skool gadgets.
- digitalArtform, on 06/29/2009, -3/+310Wait, are you kidding me? I could have been flipping the tapes over??
- RyomaNagare, on 06/29/2009, -3/+266That sounds entertaining, but he should have mixed it up a little changing from the first walkman, to the one of the latest, then the same with portable cd players.
I mean this kid barely had the chance to use an original ipod. anyway awesome cultural shock.
and he didn't even try to use a pen to rewind the tape without wasting battery. - polypropglop, on 06/29/2009, -5/+264lawl @ metal/normal
- cowsgonemadd3, on 06/29/2009, -7/+251I think this "kid" is 35 years old and works at a desk as a writer.
- metavital, on 06/29/2009, -2/+219I bursted into laughter at: "It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape."
I still remember some friends of mine still using those cassette players until a dozen years ago. CD players are still around today, but I don't remember them ever more popular than tape players nor MP3 players even in their heyday. - rypic7, on 06/29/2009, -6/+186I really don't think he was the one at the keyboard.
- B1665r, on 06/29/2009, -0/+150It might be a phantom memory, but the later cassette players just reversed the tape and automatically started playing the other side.
- paulisnotdead, on 06/29/2009, -36/+174This is *****. I'm 17 and I know how to use a ***** walkman. Hell I still have about 30-40 tapes from my childhood. This kid is just stupid.
- dragtre, on 06/29/2009, -4/+132Giving up an iPod for a walkman? Why is this news? Give the kid a boombox!
- inactive, on 06/29/2009, -2/+116walkman was always cassette tape... Diskman was for CDs
- D3L3T3D, on 06/29/2009, -0/+112Quiet now, the big people are having a discussion. Why don't you take these crayons and go sit at the table over there, here's some paper.
- kylethompson1, on 06/29/2009, -12/+124Im going to get buried for this, but how is the kid stupid? He's 13. Im sure very few 13 year olds have ever even heard of a walkman. And on another note, if that kid actually wrote that article himself, he's actually a great writer for being 13.
- pintomp3, on 06/29/2009, -0/+101I used to think the LED level meters on the boombox were in indicator of how awesome the heavy metal was.
- xerexes1, on 06/29/2009, -1/+96Yet again, another article which reminds me that I am old. I was 13 when the first Walkman came out.
- JustLetGo, on 06/29/2009, -1/+94That was the best part by far.
I remember a "tone" switch on my radio when I was 6 years old. I thought it would make the music more 'sassy'.
Like when mom says: "Watch your tone." - mjk340, on 06/29/2009, -0/+91Back in my day we would castrate choir boys to preserve their angelic voices and threaten them with the fires of Hell if they didn't sing for us.
- RandomGorilla, on 06/29/2009, -0/+88You kids with your 'walkymans'... Back in my day we had to walk five miles just to listen to the Jensons' phonograph. Mr. Jenson only had John Phillip Sousa recordings but we were GRATEFUL!!
- Po0py, on 06/29/2009, -0/+76That reminds me of the old EGM article where they got a bunch of kids to play games from the 80's. "Dude, I think that dot just killed me!"
Good times. - geodebug, on 06/29/2009, -9/+85Picking on a 13 yr old kid (stupid, ugly, etc) and getting diggs. ***** shameful, guys.
- elmuerte17, on 06/29/2009, -7/+79I'm 24 and know how to use stuff you don't. You're ***** stupid.
- electrichead, on 06/29/2009, -2/+73I think the words "Side A" and "Side B" would tip anyone off
- agentsrecord, on 06/29/2009, -1/+72It's not the Onion, but this 'kid' did not write that article.
Being someone who used to help middle school students with their English, I can tell for certain this wasn't written by a 13 year old. It's too well worded and cleverly ironic to be written by a kid. - llamabox, on 06/29/2009, -1/+71...wait why does a 10 year old have an iPhone?
- Smokeydabear, on 06/29/2009, -5/+74The kid had a cheap Walkman. Any self-respecting person would own one with auto-reverse.
- Gustomucho, on 06/29/2009, -0/+68It isn't?
- lithera, on 06/29/2009, -5/+70Kids nowadays have no concept of cassette players at all, let alone record players. Most kids have heard vaguely about such devices but that's about it.
A while ago I heard a radio dj explaining to a caller on the show what the "b side" of a album was. That's when I realized I am getting ***** old... - thumperings, on 06/29/2009, -1/+66you aren't now stfu... and get the ***** off my lawn.
- steelersfan7roe, on 06/29/2009, -20/+85Culture shock = Discovering on digg that walkman came in the form of cassette tape, rather than CD.
- bencanfield, on 06/29/2009, -2/+63First time I've ever seen a kid under 15 use the word "warbly".
- Jektal, on 06/29/2009, -0/+57The original Sony portable CD player was called the Discman, and then at some point they changed it to the Walkman name (probably when they discontinued tape-based Walkmen)
- Tenareth, on 06/29/2009, -2/+594 years is a huge difference. My 13yo has never seen a cassette tape or tape player. Though, now I am sort of curious how he would react to one... :)
As someone else said earlier, it isn't strange to not realize there are two sides, no other media has two sides except LP, which I highly doubt this kid has ever seen either. - roxgod666, on 06/29/2009, -1/+57Good move my man. I recommend trading in the dvd player for a VCR next.
- ancalagon73, on 06/29/2009, -0/+52Anybody else remember how awesome auto reverse was?
- inactive, on 06/29/2009, -2/+53For only being 13, he writes better than that "senior editor" for the Hoover Dam article... Much better. I suppose that is not the greatest feat though.
- thisthatwhat, on 06/29/2009, -3/+52Yeah, the article felt like it was far too well written for a 13 year old.
- inactive, on 06/29/2009, -0/+49Forgive him, hes only had 1hrSleep.
- Gustomucho, on 06/29/2009, -2/+51Of course they weren't, they sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-ipped way too much. Even the 3-10 second buffer was not enough if you considered using it for running or walking in rugged terrain.
Plus with tapes it was all fun and games, you could re-write music many times. Sure the band would end up eaten by the walkman, but you used a pen and roll it back in.
CD vs Tape for transport, tape for sure. - NiftyG, on 06/29/2009, -1/+47FTA: "I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser..."
Otherwise known as the "Ozzy switch" - RobotBuddha, on 06/29/2009, -0/+43I fondly recall my cd player that could also read those new fangled mp3s. Sounds pretty crappy now, but at the time 700mb of removable storage was pretty cool.
- Shawn4168, on 06/29/2009, -11/+53What's so hard to believe about it? VHS tapes didn't have two sides. Most CDs and DVDs don't have two sides.
- Cheesepuffly, on 06/29/2009, -1/+42No matter how far we have come, if you cannot appreciate old tech then your pathetic.
- shadowman99, on 06/29/2009, -0/+40Shut up ya damn upstart. We had a wax cylinder player and that was good enough to get us through the great war. When the phonograph came along the music companies wouldn't reprint our old favourites. I finally found a site with rips of my old music.
http://www.tinfoil.com/ - Gustomucho, on 06/29/2009, -4/+44Did you try to flip a VHS? You know the part where there are holes and the other side is rigid.
Side A
Side B
It is not rare to see DvD with 2 sides. - banik2008, on 06/29/2009, -0/+39That's a hard primary school you go to
- inactive, on 06/29/2009, -7/+46I'm only 22 and I feel old!!!!!!!!!
- palmer, on 06/29/2009, -1/+38You're missing the point, which was to use a cassette player.
- palmer, on 06/29/2009, -16/+50Well written article, but now let's see if we can educate people on how dynamic (not data) compression is ruining all popular music, new and old. This is a much tougher but much more important task. Record companies are inexplicably destroying our entire musical heritage for the sake of this "loudness war", which does huge damage to music sales and enthusiasm for artists' work in general, but is understood by very few people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war -
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