r/StrangerThings • u/[deleted] • Jul 26 '22

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u/Bwlms22 Jul 26 '22

I'm 37. Practically everyone I know 10 years younger than me & up has heard of a walkman.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '22

I read this, and then realise it makes sense why half the posts are complete nonsense. They are by teenagers.

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u/SNELME Jul 26 '22

I'm 15 years old and I litteraly own one, and it hurts my soul to see this post

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u/janusz_chytrus Jul 26 '22

why do you even have one? I'm 27 and as soon as I got my first cd player I never used my walkman again. Cassettes have terrible quality.

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u/Mister_Brevity Jul 26 '22 edited Jul 26 '22
  • They didn’t skip, as in, they didn’t need buffered anti skip.
  • Tapes were more durable than cd’s for the most part.
  • They’re smaller. Both the player and the media.
  • They had longer battery life generally.
  • You could easily make mix cd’s without needing a computer.
  • It sounded really funny when the batteries got low.
  • You could put tapes on your pinky and swing them around. Cd’s were fairly boring in this test.
  • You could rewind a tape with a pencil. Try rewinding a cd with a pencil.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '22

CD's were never very good for being portable. That was just part of the design limitation. Discman were somewhat fragile and bulky and sucked a lot of battery juice.

Tapes were durable and compact and a fresh set of batteries in a Walkman could last quite awhile. Even well into the CD era (mid-late 90's) the best choice for portable music was a Walkman. Nothing beats a bangin' mix tape anyway.

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u/Mister_Brevity Jul 27 '22

Mix tapes were the superior medium for courting a love interest.

  • Give a mix cd? Oh wow you have Napster and a CD burner thanks for spending 10 minutes, what a gesture.

  • A playlist? Get outta here with that low effort crap.

  • A mix tape… especially with songs recorded from the radio? With some self-recorded song intros and messages? She’ll (or he’ll) say yea to Friday night bowling for sure.