iPod killed the Walkman. Sony announced that they will stop production of their Walkman casette players in Japan.
It has been almost a decade since iPod made its debut, and the 80’s staple casette player has been resilient.
Having sold more than 200 million units, Sony will continue to produce them in China, U.S. and Europe.
Technology will always be advancing and generations will go through the evolution of gadgets periodically for improved function, design, and convenience.
We are glad some of the newest inventions like the iPad and GPS exist because there is a chance that we would have been stuck with these old school hardwares for support.
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Walkman
Back in the day it was actually labor intensive to make mix tapes on these little casette tapes. We no longer deal with flipping from Side A to Side B or having a dog accidentally rip out the inside spool of casette tapes thanks to iPods.
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Floppy Disks
This is how people stored memory back in the day before USB’s and online file sharing became so much more convenient. It may be very difficult to locate these disks since they are so obsolete now.
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VHS
The days of having to rewind and fast forward are over. We’ve upgraded to DVD’s, Blu-Ray or even better, Netflix.
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Payphone
So many people have cell phones these days that it is hard to imagine the purpose of a grimey pay phone which look mostly unsanitary in urban areas.
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Typewriter
Long gone are the clickity clacks of typewriters filling up the air in newsrooms or living rooms of writers. Digital keyboards and touchscreen keypads have become the most dominant writing tools in recent generations.
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Books
Kindle, Nook, iPad all boast sleek and compact designs with the capability of housing volumes of books and encyclopedias. Books may stick around for a while but the trend of purachasing digitally is growing rapidly.
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Maps
With almost every car equipped with a GPS and smart phone per passenger, it is hard to get lost.
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Yearbooks
Remember bullky brick sized books you get at the end of the year that you pass around for erveryone to sign? It’s called Facebook now and no one has any time to actually sign your yearbook with ink or index your last name to find you. With Facebook holding more information than a yearbook can ina digital portable format, yearbooks will be disappearing sooner than you think.
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