When A 13-year-old From 2009 Uses A Walkman For A Week

1:40AM June 30, 2009 | Jason Chen

Here’s what happens when you give a 13-year-old from 2009 a Sony Walkman—the tape kind—and ask him to figure it out without any outside help: incredible confusion.

To the kid’s credit, he was able to deduce that the tape had two sides (took him three days) and that you could switch between two kids of tapes fairly easily. He was also given weird looks on the street and allowed to listen to music in class because of his teachers’ nostalgia.

But in the end, which did he like better: his Walkman or his iPod? The iPod, of course, except for the fact that the Walkman had two headphone ports for easy music sharing. [BBC via Engadget]

Comments

  • Kif

    June 30, 2009 at 9:23 AM

    lol! Man… I’m only 32 but boy do I feel old now.

    • dzc12

      June 30, 2009 at 10:32 AM

      Dude I’m 22 and I feel old! That’s crazy!!

  • Glard Chia

    June 30, 2009 at 10:57 AM

    Dang kids and their new frangled gadgets make me feel old.

  • Dominic Bui

    June 30, 2009 at 11:17 AM

    i miss my old walkman *sigh*

  • Hugh Van Weeren

    June 30, 2009 at 4:15 PM

    honestly I think this kid is a little stupid, I’m 15 and sure it is different and may take a while to figure out but the only reason I don’t use one of those retro music players is because I only have a couple of tapes and it’s all from one artist.

    whatever, who am I to criticize.

  • Steve

    June 30, 2009 at 7:42 PM

    It took him three days to figure out that tapes play on both sides? That seems at least a little stupid.

    • michael

      July 1, 2009 at 10:06 AM

      Really ? What storage technology that a 15 year old would be reasonably familiar with requires flipping over ?

      There’s no logic to being able to play both sides of a magnetic tape if you don’t understand the principles of how information is stored on them, and why would a 15 year old have needed to learn about it unless they had an interest ?

      Of course, assuming he was using commercially produced tapes the labels ‘side 1′ and ‘side 2′ should have given it away ;)

      I do wonder what the ’2 kids of tapes’ line is supposed to say, and assuming it’s ’2 kinds of tapes’ what the ‘other kind’ is ?

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