In today’s world, smartphones are the go-to devices for remote music listening. But decades ago, the iconic Sony Walkman was the preferred choice for listening through headphones to music on walks, ...

If you were young in the 1970s and ’80s, you probably remember the cassette recorder. Big as a backpack, it was part radio, part cassette player and it was all the rage. People could use it to record ...

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Forty years later and Walkmans aren’t exactly popular to use anymore (outside of things like Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy films, anyway), but the sea change that the Walkman caused in our lives is ...