13 year old trades iPod for classic Walkman....does not like it

[terry78]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/01/BU2618GKE7.DTL&nopu=1


Haha.

 

[knowsbleed]

"Even when he discovered the cassette had more music on the other side (it took him three days), Campbell was still disappointed it could only hold a small fraction of what an iPod can."











Hahahahahhahaa... I'm sad now.

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

ahh kids today, hahaha the world is ****ed

 

[Immortalfire]

What the heck

 

[huskerwebhead]

"Did my dad ... really ever think this was a credible piece of technology?"

WTF kind of question is that?? Of course it was. Does he think iPods and mass media storage just appeared out of nowhere?

 

[Gamma Ray]

What a bastard. The Walkman rocked.

 

[SpeterMan3]

:facepalm

 

[Sawyer]

That kid must be made of fail.

 

[Erzengel]

Next, he has to talk to a girl in real life instead of online. Let's see if he likes it.

 

[SsM]

Some kids... Some kids.

 

[AlteredEgo]

Next, he has to talk to a girl in real life instead of online. Let's see if he likes it.

psh, this kid knows all about girls. he studied them on wikipedia.

 

[Bnightwing]

There are kids now that are like "What is a cassette? "

 

[SsM]

There are kids now that are like "What is a cassette? "

JUst wait until my kids see my BETA MAX player..

 

[NightBeetle]

I feel depress after reading that. :facepalm

 

[Immortalfire]

Next, he has to talk to a girl in real life instead of online. Let's see if he likes it.

I wonder if he knows that girls existed in real life, before the Internet?

 

[Immortalfire]

JUst wait until my kids see my BETA MAX player..

Laserdisc FTW!

 

[SsM]

My kids will be spoiled with Betamax and colecovision.

 

[AlteredEgo]

Laserdisc FTW!

oh man, for sure. i think i wore out my copy of karate kid i watched it on there so many times.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

I think you guys are being a little too harsh on the kid. He comes from a different generation. Can you guys really imagine going back to a Walkman? It would be like someone asking you to trade in your TV for a radio as you're only form of in home entertainment.

 

[Sawyer]

I think you guys are being a little too harsh on the kid. He comes from a different generation. Can you guys really imagine going back to a Walkman? It would be like someone asking you to trade in your TV for a radio as you're only form of in home entertainment.

We're not being harsh enough.

 

[Raiden]

I think you guys are being a little too harsh on the kid. He comes from a different generation. Can you guys really imagine going back to a Walkman? It would be like someone asking you to trade in your TV for a radio as you're only form of in home entertainment.

The kid can ridicule Walkman when he tries to compare this 20-year-old technology with iPod, which is the best portable digital music machine out there right now. But he should've at least acknowledge Walkman's place in history, and one can argue that without Walkman, iPod may not exist, either. It's like saying how much better Xbox 360 is compared to the Nintendo Famicom.

 

[thedeadite]

Laserdisc FTW!

I JUST bought a Laserdisc player, 12 Laserdiscs last Saturday.
True story.

 

[Jolly Rolly]

"My dad had told me it was the iPod of its day," Campbell wrote. "He had told me it was big, but I hadn't realized he meant that big. It was the size of a small book."

He probably thought it was too heavy to carry around, poor stupid ignorant imbecile kid.

 

[SuperFerret]

And this, more than anything else, is why children should be beaten.

 

[terry78]

You can't even make mixtapes anymore. Now it's just a bunch of garbled mp3 bits.