Rewinding to the age of the Sony Walkman | Caroline Sullivan

They were never handy enough to be as ubiquitous as MP3 players – yet cassette Walkmen reshaped how music was heardOccasionally, when stuck on a bus next to someone whose MP3 player is turned up to 11, letting all of us enjoy a noise that goes "Tsss-tsss-tsss-boom-tsss-tsss-tsss-boom", I've felt nostalgic for the cassette-based Sony Walkman, which Sony is finally retiring. Though its hissy headphones offered users the same opportunity to irritate everyone in the vicinity, it rarely seemed to h...

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