June 30th, 2009 by 
adam
BoingBoing.net found a great post on the BBC, 13 kid given a 30 year old Sony Walkman. This is a great read.
- audioREVIEW
“Throughout my week using the Walkman, I came to realise that I have very little knowledge of technology from the past. I made a number of naive mistakes, but I also learned a lot about the grandfather of the MP3 Player.
You can almost imagine the excitement about the Walkman coming out 30 years ago, as it was the newest piece of technology at the time.
Perhaps that kind of anticipation and excitement has been somewhat lost in the flood of new products which now hit our shelves on a regular basis.”
image source: BBC “The Walkman was a nostalgic sight for Scott’s parents”
source: BBC
via: BoingBoing.net
