It's a cycle
Vinyl was already cool again way before 2008.
Also, 2008 was the era of loading up iPods and the like. Spotify as a phenomenon is much more recent.
Also, USB?
Now that I think about it, just about everything in this meme is wrong...
I can't remember when I traded pirating music for my zune/iTouch for Spotify, but I know back in 2008 we were still using MP3 players. We were still in relatively early years with MP3 players, too. In 2010 I was still using my jailbroke iTouch 3, so we were still in the MP3 era until at least 2010. People also joked back then about vinyl snobs who made "audiophile" part of their personality. Records were cool and record shops were able to stay in business. Cassette sales were down on the other hand, because we were still getting over the trauma of them getting jammed and the excitement of having high quality digital music.
OP must be very young and just looked up what year things came out, not what year things were used. Weren't DVDs invented in the 80s?
I mean, shit, I had an MP3 player in 1999. Yeah it only had 32 MB, but at 64kpbs, I coud store a whole album on there.
There was a brief period where sticking a thumb drive into the pioneer stereo was slick AF
Where are the mp3 players?
Cd's was not really a thing in 83.
Source: Im old.
You’re right. This post appears to be closer to when the tech was invented vs when they became mainstream. CDs were invented in 1982 but usage really didn’t take off until adoption in the 90s.
Back in the days when the slightest breeze blown in the general direction of the CD player would cause it to skip.
I don't think cassette tapes were common in 63 either. They were using 8 track cassettes commonly before that.
CDs were more like 1992. I was around 5-6 then and distinctly remember getting Vanilla Ice's CD.
Flash drive? More like a iPod.
Zune or bust
Microsoft, Nov 2006: “we finally launched an iPod competitor” Apple, Jan 2007: “standalone MP3 players are the past, behold the first multitouch smart phone” Microsoft: “the Zune comes in brown”
Zune was the shit. Being able to share music wirelessly to those around you was so cool
Problem was, I only ever met like 3 people rocking a Zune at my college. You needed to convince your friend group to adopt it with you.
And like 3 months after the Zune launched, the gadget everyone was talking about was the first iPhone. The Zune was too late to the party. Everyone was about to jump to touch screen smartphones.
I remember around 2010 when Nokia smartphones were really good and could do much more than iPhones, but the marketing had already taken hold. Anything not iPhone was not considered a smartphone. Ironically.
It's a good thing Andriod happened then.
IMHO, even though the OG iPhone lacked MMS, 3G, GPS, and even copy / paste, the web browsing, gestures, and software fit and finish were game changers that everyone scrambled to catch up with. Ditto with the App Store. iOS had an App marketplace that was pretty damn big by the time that Android phones started shipping.
IMHO, it wasn’t just marketing. There were compelling software features that made iOS something people wanted during 2007-2011
But back to the original point, the Zune kind of released right when everyone was migrating their music collections to smart phones. It was a terribly timed product.
And ironically, a lot of ground breaking touch screen work was being done in MS labs at the time. I remember seeing a lot of that demoed at conferences and in CS journals. If they had the foresight to apply that tech to their phones, the iPhone would’ve never taken off.
And calling sharing ‘Squirting’ was just the icing on the cake. “Hey babe, are you a squirter? Because I got some sick tunes to give you….”
I had that Creative Zen, thing was thick
I had the Creative Zen Nano lol. It acted like a USB flash drive too if you needed it to.
I used to own a flash drive that's also a mp3 player, it's pretty neat
One genuine point owed to retro hipster music formats though: you can't DRM them.
I'm sure you could come up with a way of recording binary code on the vinyl that could only be played back as music with the proper encryption key.
INB4 they start encoding it as dialup modem sounds.
I am pretty sure this meme was made wrong on purpose for algorithm reasons by someone trying to drive more traffic to their page. Nothing like baiting people into correcting you in order to increase engagement.
Where's the mini disc???
I guees I'm stuck in the 2000s as I still rocking my 10,000 mp3 collection lol
I assume people buy Vinyls of their favourite artists as a kind of poster (which also physically contains the music)... not to actually listen to it.
I consider it a way of actually supporting them. Sure I listen to them digitally 99% of the time but they get such a small cut from that.
Vinyl never actually stopped being the coolest, its a issue of affordability and convince, you cant put a Vinyl player in your car or carry it around all day...
Pssht we're all about Edison cylinders now
And tape is just now starting to get popular again with the hipsters. Big reel-to-reel machines.
Place your bets on when playing midis on old Windows 3.1 computers will explode again!
This is so wrong that I am offended.
what happened with spotify?
Lol, this is off by decades and Spotify is away now popular than records right now
Cassette tapes are also sort of coming back. There are modern ones are both USB compatible and compatible with old cassette players. They exist mostly for the market of people who own old cars that don't have modern radios.
So, are we all going to just ignore the 8tracks?
