The Sony Walkman: Thegadget that let people create a mobile personal soundtrack - [Resources_Tools & Toys]

Roughly half of all people alive today were born after the HIH Walkman cassette player was Introduced. Thanks to the blockbuster Guardians of the Galaxy movie, though, many of them can still recognize this iconic blue- and-silver box. But if you weren't there in 1979–80, it's hard to appreciate what a head-spinning revelation the thing was, how radically it changed the way music was played and consumed, or the stunning speed with which it became seemingly ubiquitous.