I came across a pretty cool gift idea the other day. It's a USB flash drive that uses a facsimile of an old cassette tape for a case. The idea is that you make a mix-tape with it. You can check it out here. It even includes a liner notes area for the track list and what-have-you.
This web site linked to another one (here) that was just a collection of high resolution photographs of various old cassette tapes. I spent a while looking through them finding the various ones I used when I was younger. See the sweet example at the top of the post...
Here's a few interesting dates regarding various music formats. All this information was collected through Wikipedia, so, whatever.
- Vinyl Records - 1888
- 8-track Tapes - 1963
- Cassette Tapes - 1964
- Compact Discs - 1982
- Mini-discs - 1992
- First Commercially Available MP3 Player - 1997
- Best Commercially Available MP3 Player (iPod) - 2001
2 comments:
Those Memorex cassette tapes are Classic.
Ah, cassette tapes remind me so much of the innocence of a pre-911 world.
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