Sony Walkman Named Top Music Invention of Past 50 Years

I can get behind that. Sony’s Walkman was such a revolutionary device at the time: a cassette player that can fit in your (very large) pocket? Sign me up! I was able to listen to Soulsonic Force and break-dancing mixtapes back in the day with this bad boy. Plus, I don’t see any iPods transforming into one of the best Decepticons ever, Soundwave.

Never before had consumers been able to listen to music as they walked down the street, without balancing a tape player on their shoulder. Within two years of its launch, it had become the must-have gadget around the world, confounding early critics who said it would never take off without a record button.

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