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

[SuperFerret]

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

But we can call them mixtapes. Just like CDs can be called albums.

 

[Majic Walrus]

"He had told me it was big, but I hadn't realized he meant that big. It was the size of a small book."

Man... **** kids.

 

[katie_girl09]

I never thought that I'd be saying this at my ripe old age, but -
Kids these days!

 

[Cunning Stunts]

Has he never heard the phrase, "Please flip to Side B"?

 

[DDS]

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.

I'm his same age and I think he's a moron! t: Man...so much fail...

 

[bullets]

I want to beat this kid with an 8 track.

 

[Kane52630]

i suddenly feel old

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

What better way to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Sony's iconic Walkman than to ask a teenager for some feedback on the device?

The BBC couldn't think of one, and neither can I.

I like to imagine that the experience was similar to an archaeologist rediscovering how a recently excavated artifact was employed thousands of years ago. But I'm well aware that it must have been different for 13-year-old Scott Campbell, who co-edits his own news Web site. For one, teenage impatience must have stood in the place where I fantasize scientific curiosity should have been.

"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."

Sure enough, people on the street noticed the antique clinging from his belt with amusement and friends on his school bus were quick to come up with some witty remark.

Campbell went on to criticize the portable cassette player's size, appearance, functionality and the "hissy backtrack and odd warbly noises."

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.

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

Ouch.

 

[enterthemadness]

Well at the time, it was, just like portable CD players.

 

[Wiseman]

Already a thread made about this yesterday........can a mod please merge this

 

[Kane52630]

oh whoops, i didnt see your thread

 

[Wiseman]

I didn't make it.....Terry78 did I think, it's ok. Honest mistake

 

[Kane52630]

these kids dont know how easy they got it

i want to see the look on their faces when someone tells them that we used to go online with AOL with 56k speed

 

[Kane52630]

yea, i think thats what i get for looking only at my subscriptions on my user cp
... need to look at the forum once and a while lol

 

[Darthkush]

That was hilarious AND it made me feel old. WIN....and lose?

 

[SsM]

It was a madhouse when the CD player walkman came out.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Vinyl FTW!!!

 

[imdaly]

"He had told me it was big, but I hadn't realized he meant that big. It was the size of a small book."

"That's what SHE said!"

 

[TheFuture]

The last quote from the kid screams to me insolent little brat with no respect!

 

[Logan's Lady]

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.

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

"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.

oh man... he probably actually built some muscles in his arms from carrying around that heavy thing

It was a madhouse when the CD player walkman came out.

yeah... I still have both a walkman and a CD player walkman (too bad this one skipped so much you couldn't take it anywhere )

 

[Lantern Venom]

. I still have both a walkman and a CD player walkman (too bad this one skipped so much you couldn't take it anywhere )

I do as well. I have way to many audiobooks on both of those to ever give up my CD & Cass walkmen.

 

[Alex The Great]

Wow, what an idiot!

 

[Go Web Go!]

I used my Walkman up until 2006. Still would had it not crapped out.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

The kid after realizing his Walkman.

"Oh Walkman, I am disappoint".

 

[knowsbleed]

Ahh cassette tapes. The days when you pretty much had to listen to an album the whole way through... unless you were a fast forwarding fool.

 

[chamber-music]

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.

I actually played a cassette tape the other day for the first time in about 10 years and for a moment I forgot how to operate the cassette player