{"id":2942,"date":"2009-07-01T20:22:29","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T04:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.wordpress.com\/?p=2942"},"modified":"2025-10-22T13:13:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T21:13:19","slug":"happy-30th-birthday-walkman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/2009\/07\/01\/happy-30th-birthday-walkman\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 30th Birthday Walkman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy July, Happy Canada Day<\/a>, and Happy 30th Birthday to the Sony Walkman. To shed some light on the technological leaps and bounds made since its advent, BBC brilliantly handed one to a 13 year old for a week to review. He (rather eloquently) delineates his experience here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Luckily, although Sony “initially planned to call the machine ‘Soundabout’ in the United States and ‘Stowaway’ in Britain,”<\/a> the term Walkman caught on quickly among consumers. In honor of the pesky little device that started it all, lets take a trip down memory road. For those among you who like to delve into model numbers and such minutiae, check out the Classic Walkman Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My personal favorite was always the sporty yellow model. Remember that bad boy?<\/p>\n

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If the Walkman was the iPod’s predecessor, perhaps this commercial planted the seed for all those flashy iPod commercials.<\/p>\n