Remember the days before iTunes? Before BearShare, Limewire, Kazaa, Morpheus and even
Napster? Back in my day, we didn't download music or burn it to a CD. No, when I was in middle school and high school, I always had a blank tape in my stereo, ready for one of my favorite songs to come on. As those opening notes began to play, I was ready to hit "record" and preserve those songs forever, or at least as long as I had a tape player to play them in. The result was many many tapes of random songs that I collected over the years.
In one weird case, I have one called "Essential Road Trip Mix" My car does not have a tape player. I probably made it back when I drove my parents cars which did have tape players. At the time, I think the cars my friends drove also had tape players, so maybe that's it.
The other day, I overheard a couple of tweens talking. One asked the other what a Walkman was. The response? "That's something that really really old people used before iPods existed."
