And tape is just now starting to get popular again with the hipsters. Big reel-to-reel machines.
Place your bets on when playing midis on old Windows 3.1 computers will explode again!
Stock up on cassettes right meow
Where’s the mini disc???
Flash drive? More like a iPod.
Zune or bust
Microsoft, Nov 2006: “we finally launched an iPod competitor” Apple, Jan 2007: “standalone MP3 players are the past, behold the first multitouch smart phone” Microsoft: “the Zune comes in brown”
Zune was the shit. Being able to share music wirelessly to those around you was so cool
And calling sharing ‘Squirting’ was just the icing on the cake. “Hey babe, are you a squirter? Because I got some sick tunes to give you….”
Problem was, I only ever met like 3 people rocking a Zune at my college. You needed to convince your friend group to adopt it with you.
And like 3 months after the Zune launched, the gadget everyone was talking about was the first iPhone. The Zune was too late to the party. Everyone was about to jump to touch screen smartphones.
I remember around 2010 when Nokia smartphones were really good and could do much more than iPhones, but the marketing had already taken hold. Anything not iPhone was not considered a smartphone. Ironically.
It’s a good thing Andriod happened then.
IMHO, even though the OG iPhone lacked MMS, 3G, GPS, and even copy / paste, the web browsing, gestures, and software fit and finish were game changers that everyone scrambled to catch up with. Ditto with the App Store. iOS had an App marketplace that was pretty damn big by the time that Android phones started shipping.
IMHO, it wasn’t just marketing. There were compelling software features that made iOS something people wanted during 2007-2011
But back to the original point, the Zune kind of released right when everyone was migrating their music collections to smart phones. It was a terribly timed product.
And ironically, a lot of ground breaking touch screen work was being done in MS labs at the time. I remember seeing a lot of that demoed at conferences and in CS journals. If they had the foresight to apply that tech to their phones, the iPhone would’ve never taken off.
of you go with ipod i guess you would put wurlizter and boombox
I had that Creative Zen, thing was thick
I had the Creative Zen Nano lol. It acted like a USB flash drive too if you needed it to.
I used to own a flash drive that’s also a mp3 player, it’s pretty neat
I guees I’m stuck in the 2000s as I still rocking my 10,000 mp3 collection lol
This is so wrong that I am offended.
Lol some clueless zoomer made this
OK boomer
Vinyl never actually stopped being the coolest, its a issue of affordability and convince, you cant put a Vinyl player in your car or carry it around all day…
One genuine point owed to retro hipster music formats though: you can’t DRM them.
I’m sure you could come up with a way of recording binary code on the vinyl that could only be played back as music with the proper encryption key.
INB4 they start encoding it as dialup modem sounds.
Where are the 8-tracks?
OP never heard of em.
In Hell
Where it plays the same songs over and over in an endless loop. Until the head alignment gets off. Then it plays two different songs at the same time.
It’s a cartridge tape. Think cassette tape inside a nes cartridge
Cd’s was not really a thing in 83.
Source: Im old.
Nothing really makes sense here.
Cassettes weren’t big until the eighties and cd’s were nineties. USB? Sure, maybe. Spotify didn’t become available for the US until 2011 (I waited patiently for that). And vinyl has definitely been coming back for quite some time now.
Usb got big in like mid-00s.
We were still using CD players till 2005. I remember somewhere in '04 or '05 when 128mb mp3 players went rampant.
CDs were more like 1992. I was around 5-6 then and distinctly remember getting Vanilla Ice’s CD.
And vinyl has been hot again for decades. Especially when it was the only medium for DJ’ing - before digital turntables became a thing. Major cities have been littered with hipster vinyl shops for like 20 years.
I don’t think cassette tapes were common in 63 either. They were using 8 track cassettes commonly before that.
You’re right. This post appears to be closer to when the tech was invented vs when they became mainstream. CDs were invented in 1982 but usage really didn’t take off until adoption in the 90s.
Back in the days when the slightest breeze blown in the general direction of the CD player would cause it to skip.
You have to expect some skipping when the cd player is attached to your hip
Pssht we’re all about Edison cylinders now
We are still in the era of Spotify?
What are you using?
Spotify and trying out Apple Music.
Somehow for the majority of people yes. Despite them still being the one of the few services with no hifi
Well given this meme I figured it was just a stand in for streaming anyways.
Also I’m willing to bet the vast majority of people don’t even have the equipment to tell the difference between lossless and not.
Well…yeah. it’s easy and convenient using something I already carry everywhere with me and sounds perfectly fine to the majority of people.
I assume people buy Vinyls of their favourite artists as a kind of poster (which also physically contains the music)… not to actually listen to it.
I consider it a way of actually supporting them. Sure I listen to them digitally 99% of the time but they get such a small cut from that.
what happened with spotify?
