@@Extratone "optimized" A bit more effort went into making it happen back then so it meant a bit more. Playlists are still thoughtful but you can put one together in 5 minutes if you want to
I was going into the 9th grade when the Walkman came out. They were EXPENSIVE and one of our friends, who was probably the richest kid in the school, got one for his birthday. He put on the demo tape for us to listen - it was an airplane flying by - for us, and we all ducked because it felt like it was going through our heads.
One of the "advantages" of growing up in a less than developed country, is that I am only 29, but I have used most of the tech you show in "retro-tech". Loved my walkman... :)
I was 15 when the Walkman came out. At that time they included a demo tape of various sounds. One of them was a airline jet fly by in stereo from right to left. First time I heard it I was panicked and excited at the same time. Will never forget that first time!
I remember when I got my first portable music CD player my dad kept referring to it as a "Walkman" , when I got an ipod he still called it a "walkman" , when I got my first G1 smartphone he said it was a "cellphone with built in walkman". lol
My Sony Walkman helped me keep my sanity while deployed remotely in Desert Storm. It’s the small things in life that matter. Having your music is part of the soul 👍🏻
@@MyDarkImpulse I think there were different boxes for the same device depending on which country it was in. IIRC, the original name of the Walkman in the U. S. was the Sound-about.
I was born in 1950, so I had a complete experience in all the retro items your series has featured. This episode hit me when you pointed out the isolation factor the Walkman introduced. Never thought about that back then, or even now, except for the isolation factor of the smartphone. I have felt that for years.
hellou. _ ) I was born 1979 - I really feel anger, frustration and dissapointment about How I did not care and keep safe my devices, Walkman, Headphones, Audio systems (aiwa, sony, panasonic) . the best thing now to me has been (this year ebay shop) to get an old Walkman FX45, not so good we know by age, other walkman FX43 unfortunelly I broke the Reverse-direction plastic controls one day later after receive it)
It was an honor to test ancient tech with you and sing about being on fire--which the sony would probably survive 🙏🙏🙏 amazing episode, booking a trip to Woodbridge so we can run around w/ headphones on and see what happens
Lol it wasnt only ancient technology, it was ancient ideolgy. " walkman, diskman" why not walk woman, diskwoman.... people didn't care then I guess, or walklgbt+
I miss those Walkman Sports days in school. Grown up with a walkman, cd player, mini disk player, USB music player, iPod, iPod touch, iPhone and now its 2021. Crazy how it's evolved. Loved all of it and i wonder what's next!!
I was born in the 80s and lived through the end of it and the 90s as a child, I really appreciated this video, finally something to watch that bought back all the nostalgia, and I really appreciate Sony so much more now
Cassette tapes made Indonesia are the one with bulky plastic casings and using mostly metal tapes made by BASF and Maxell. Until now here in eBay UK they are still expensive worth at least not less than £15 if new and sealed. They sound like CDs.
@@redbishop71 wow, I dont' know if there's any other type of plastic casing. Brands that sell and manufacture their cassete tape in Indonesia was BASF, HDX, Maxell, 3M, Panarec (as far as I remember)
@@TunjungUtomo Yeah there is, the casing is made in one piece plastic , I think if I am not mistaken, they were called clam shell casings, and it’s just a one piece bulky plastic.
all of my high school was spent plugged into a yellow sony sports walkman. I have 2 daughters that have broken every screen on every device they have ever owned and some broken ipods. WM-F45 sports walkman fell down stairs, went across school halls, slid across sidwalks and even went in the pool. Still played music easily.
@@mikatu Interestingly they dropped the Discman name for portable CD Players and went back to the Walkman brand in 2000.. So a lot of people probably have a "CD Walkman".
@@20blog28 Yeah, dont know about Cars (I know Toyota is big). Cars that are used and loved the most are German cars (at least in Western societies) but with everything else I must agree, Nintendo and Sony are the Go To for me when it comes to consoles. Its because I can play everything else on a PC and those consoles have some good games on their own like Fire Emblem or Persona.
80's Kid Here! I remember the walkman very fondly :) Often had the cheap knockoffs, but the experience was what it was about, Taking my music everywhere. FYI The cheaper models often only had play, stop and fast-forward!
I disagree. As someone who has, in the past, had a Walkman, a discman, and an iPod as my portable music player, I don't think the discman really killed the Walkman. At the time when the discman was gaining popularity, walkmans were tiny in comparison, in addition to sporting better battery life and durability. I distinctly remember that I could make my discman skip by sitting down a bit too quickly or riding in a car on a rough road. Not to mention, a Walkman could fit in my pocket, a discman could not. It wasn't until the iPod that there was a portable music player that was small enough to fit in your pocket, but didn't skip, and had good battery life
If I was going to be in a car, train, plane, or just stay in one place, I'd grab my discman. But if I was going to be walking or exercising, the Walkman was my choice
Oh, and there's one thing I forgot. You could record over a tape however many times you wanted, but up until 1991, when CD-R came out that you could make your own mix, and it wasn't until 1997, when CD-RW came out that you could reuse a disc several times. The first discman was released in 1984
well they were new products then. naturally after all this time you'd have to repair them, and there's not many if not ANY new walkmans coming out worth buying.
I LOVED my Walkman!! And those "clicky" buttons are mechanical buttons. When you press one down you are actually pressing down on a linkage of some kind thats making things inside happen. I also LOVED mix tapes!! Its hard to explain how new and how absolutely great mix tapes were.
Thanks for that Nostalgic drive bud. I never used a Walkman when I lived in India but surely grew up with it's cheaper knockoffs. I sincerely wish and hope that SONY legacy would stay forever.
@@jacobt1027 In India music CDs were luxury for a long time (except the pirated ones, which sucked). My dad won the Walkman at a fuel station draw. It was very special.
Goes to show how long it's been since Sony's changed the game. "Sony invented the whole consumer electronics marketplace.The first transistor radio, the Trinitron television, the first consumer VCR, the Walkman, the audio CD...the innovation that they brought to the marketplace was staggering." --Steve Jobs
And don't forget the minidisc, the laserdisc, the betamax (not the VCR that was JVC), and the PlayStation that changed the market so much that Sega dropped the consoles market.
@ Joe Pup: Have to correct you there, Steve. Both the audio CD and audio cassette were inventions of Dutch company Philips. They also had the best VCR technology (Video 2000), but lost out to VHS, due to bad marketing and refusing to bring out porn on VCR.
I remember when my daughter found an old Walkman and I had to explain what it was and how it worked. i still remember her amazement at how something so big could hold so few songs. Still, she found the moving parts fascinating for an hour or so.
Hi, I'm Brazilian and I bought my walkman in 1982, and almost no one had one of these at the time, with it I made my own music selection to listen to wherever I went. The invention of this "gadget" was really revolutionary. And it made me feel very good, the music accompanied me wherever I went. Tradução em tempo real Feedback
Foi uma época muito legal. Meus pais puderam comprar pra mim, apenas o chines, que chamavamos de Paraguai, kkkk. E realmente, a experiência dos dispositivos analógicos eram unicas. Depois que fiquei independente financeiramente, acompanhei toda a evolução dos discman, mp3 players e por fim o matador de todas as tecnologias e o mais sem graça: o smartphone
@Kreature Feature nah, tech just became digital that's all, kids now know ten times more than kids back then, thanks to the internet and advancements in technology.
@Kreature Feature I mean social media distracts people but, instead of knowing quick fixes to walkmans/electrical appliances kids these days know useful shortcuts on computers/mobile and are taught to write lines of helpful codes at school, so yeah, they might not know about obsolete tech but boy, are they up to date with advanced tech
Kreature Feature the funny thing is these children will grow to become way smarter than you and me will ever dream of being, every generations becomes way smarter than it’s predecessors. You call them illiterate just like how the people before you would’ve said the same thing to you. Just sad
Love all the stuff you do Marques! To me the Walkman was freedom. My Walkman and my 10 speed Schwinn. With those two I was able to find out who I was in the world. Thanks bud.
I'm 33 years old and the most Cool gift you can had as a child was a walkman. It changed our way to live forever. I want to see where we're going to be in 30 Years
@@therealtrue842 True, I remember. So did cassette walkmen too, they used to make some (not original Sony) with anti-roll which were advertised as being suitable for joggers.
@@simonh6371 yes, walkman came in the 90s but before that this little guy was very popular, a basic item. At least in my country It became popular very late in the 90s until the anti-skip models arrived
The walkman was the thing to have back in the early 80's, before that all we had was the transistor radio to carry around with us and this made it possible for us to be able to play the music we wanted while walking around. It was truly the first portable player where we weren't listening to a radio station and for me, I would use my boombox to record music off the radio and then put it on a mixtape which I would play in my Walkman.
@Adrian Toko "In that soothing voice"... at level 3 we open up those AA batteries and release that 30 year old acid. It spills over the circuit board... aaand we're done.
ウォークマンわ余りにも軽いので 持っているのに 持っていない Walkman is so light It's like you have it But you don't have it I'm still learning Japanese but here's my translation. It fades out in 2nd line. 3rd line is not in this video, I had to find the source video to finish the sentence. Hope this helps! :)
What strikes me most is that I'm 26 and I played Sega Genesis and tried Sony Walkman when I was a kid. I guess that's because tech came late to Brazil meanwhile in US there was newer stuff.
This reminds me to the 90's era, the golden era. Pagers, walkman, discman, tamagotchi, payphone and many more. Those time, even before cellphone. It brings me back to high school memories. Thank you, bro...
I think walkman realy make people anti social than smartphone..at least you can use social media with your smartphone to do "social" thing with people far from you
@@bubbyft3779 "I bike ride through the neighborhood of my apartment Complex on a ten speed which I've acquired parts that I Find in the garbage, a frame, then put tires on it Headphones on look straight ahead if kids try and start shit"
The Walkman should be one of greatest created technology product for mass consumption that started the world of portability. I don’t think people had any portable and useful electronics before that.
There were portable radios which allowed you to take music with you. What the Walkman did was give you the ability to take your own music with you rather than just having what was served up by your local radio stations.
Young people will never know the dread of pulling out your cassette, and the tape was stuck inside the Walkman spools. Using a pencil to wind the tape back in was a past time of the 80s.
@@mangoman0i299 nope, im very glad im in the generation i am in. i dont think enjoying retro stuff makes me want to live in that time. i love the conveniences of todays technology but i can still find things from the past interesting.
I am 82 years old and this was a wonderful background video about how the "Walkman" came about. You forgot to talk about the transition when the devices gained recordability. Otherwise, it was perfect.
You're holding a color TV + a photo camera + a typewriter in a little postcard which has no batteries??? Dude what's the trick? 20$ for you to show me this awesome magic trick.
I've never actually seen one of these!😵 That girl saying that made me feel 100 years old! I'm 42 lol! I had so many Walkmans or a generic versions of it when I was teenager it was a must have on your way to school or work
I was 18 years old in 1980 when a friend let me listen to their Sony Walkman for the first time. The album on cassette that I listened to was Billy Joel 'Glass Houses'. I was amazed at how incredible the Walkman sounded, in fact really I was blown away by it. The unfortunate thing about it was that the Sony Walkman was somewhere in the $300 range if I remember correct, which was out of the price range for an 18 year old working full time during the day and going to college at night.
Prices fell pretty quick, though, as the knock-offs flooded the market. Of course, the Sonys were always a bit more expensive just becaus of the name on them.
I had the silver Walkman 2 with the detachable belt clip and external backup battery pack. The headphones had the orange earpieces and the hot line button built into the cord. I had a ton of cassette tapes. We would record our albums and CD’s onto cassette to listen to on the Walkman and in the car. Good times back then. It’s amazing how far we’ve come with technology.
I had to work for 3 months in my paper route job to afford my first walkman. But when I saved up the $100 it was so worth it! Completely changed how I consumed music. Genius invention!
First time I ever heard 'headphones' was on a Walkman. Blew my mind, fact that sound so full it rivalled a good boom box could come from tiny speakers on your ears. Without those first great MDR headphones, Walkman would have flopped.
It was Walkman-type players that got me to start using headphones. Growing up headphones were these massive over-the-ear headphones that were uncomfortable and hot. With the Walkman, you started to see headphones that were smaller, lighter, and more comfortable to wear, and took much less power to drive them. Now, I can wear my headphones for hours if I need to.
I think walkman realy make people anti social than smartphone..at least you can use social media with your smartphone to do "social" thing with people far from you
Not at all... *iPod Impact was much Higher than Sony on the Industry, basically made those Physical Record studios go Bankrupt* .... Accept it or Not ......
I had several of those. Different models to be sure. But my first one was just like that one. But it was in 1983 / 84, it had fm am as well. Soooooo very cool. 😎 Toward the later days they had bass boost and the Sony turbo head phones. The air buds of the time. Totally bad ass.
Love this!!! ...I remember having a ‘Walkman’ from the early 80s when I was a kid. Only downside to them, is they would sometimes chew up cassettes. But still a brilliant device to play music. I still have all my cassettes from the 80s.
I never really experienced the walkman, considering that I was born in Pakistan in 2003 but cassette tapes are one of the most beautiful memories of my early childhood. My mom and aunt had a whole bunch of cassettes of regional languages and I really enjoyed them. Brings back a lot of memories
I remember as a kid how happy I was when I've got my walkman as a birthday gift, and I have never left home without this companion. I think it is also a great way to lissten to the music of 80s and 90s with an audio cassette , because this is the way it meant to sound, with all that imperfections but then also with sone of that analog charm.
Yeah we'd carefully pull out the tangled mess and then snipe off the really damaged part and then glue it back and you were good to go . . . but some of the music wus forever lost
I used to have CD Walkman in my early teen years, listening to hanson and just strolling around the neighborhood bought back memories. I do remember the tape cassette, but I don't recall having one Walkman version.
What the Sony Walkman also allowed besides music recordings was the concept of the "mobile lesson plans." You could learn something new, take a course, learn a new language or improve in what you knew, relisten to a college lecture from earlier and it opened up that sort of "recorded lesson plan by voice" industry.
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The best part was to watch this without having RUclips premium.
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Is it only available usually to premium?
RUclips recently made their "Premium" content available to everyone.
Fuk. I need my money back.
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Marques normally: I have been using this for a while now
Marques in retro series: I have never used it before in my life
Honestly though
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Prakhar Agrawal g
@Commander Spock what
Man the mixtape part is so important. Making a tape for your girlfriend was a real thing in the 90s. Thumbs up
Jason Epps but who hasn't done that special playlist of tunes for their girl? Still happening
definitely still happening. we’ve just optimized it.
You did that to?
Now we make playlists for each other and thats still pretty cute imo
@@Extratone "optimized"
A bit more effort went into making it happen back then so it meant a bit more. Playlists are still thoughtful but you can put one together in 5 minutes if you want to
I was going into the 9th grade when the Walkman came out. They were EXPENSIVE and one of our friends, who was probably the richest kid in the school, got one for his birthday. He put on the demo tape for us to listen - it was an airplane flying by - for us, and we all ducked because it felt like it was going through our heads.
One of the "advantages" of growing up in a less than developed country, is that I am only 29, but I have used most of the tech you show in "retro-tech". Loved my walkman... :)
Yes
That's actually so interesting I never thought of different markets that way!
True that brother i am just 23 and have used all those techs Nd feel hw have these ppl nt known or used that stuff 🤔🤔
same here, these guys are either acting dumb with no common sense or they are really dumb. If their iphone is dead, their life is gone.
Wow you're 29? You must have grown up with some real antiques back then.
I was 15 when the Walkman came out. At that time they included a demo tape of various sounds. One of them was a airline jet fly by in stereo from right to left. First time I heard it I was panicked and excited at the same time. Will never forget that first time!
love your comment! my sister turned 14 and got one, I was eleven and got schocked as well!!
That honestly sounds like an awesome experience. Being taken aback by something so transformative at the time.
Even though i was born well after stereo output became standard, im still amazed when songs do weird shit with the mixing (hendrix, acid bath, etc)
I was the same age. It was one of those tech products that you didn't know you absolutely needed.
I remember when I got my first portable music CD player my dad kept referring to it as a "Walkman" , when I got an ipod he still called it a "walkman" , when I got my first G1 smartphone he said it was a "cellphone with built in walkman". lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣 love it
😂 yup , my mom did too
My dad's first flip photo with an built in music player was called an walkman and everyone was super impressed.
😂 Dad's the coolest
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My Sony Walkman helped me keep my sanity while deployed remotely in Desert Storm. It’s the small things in life that matter. Having your music is part of the soul 👍🏻
Didn’t the TPS L2 stereo come in a different box
@@MyDarkImpulse I think there were different boxes for the same device depending on which country it was in. IIRC, the original name of the Walkman in the U. S. was the Sound-about.
Back in the days where making a mix tape was a legit skill.
Yes mixtape and Playlist, and art cover
Amazing! I could see myself really getting in to that if mixtapes where relavent today.
Still a skill
Cedrick J'mack Niddle pretty easy now, you just need a tape recorder and an aux connected to a computer, amd that's about it.
You still need to adjust the bias and azimuth. Calibrating for the tape formula is ideal. Not every tape recorder can be calibrated.
Edit: Spelling
"as big as the Empire State Building and as loud as world War II" if that isn't the greatest description of anything ever.
Oh my gosh I died laughing at that. It's such an amazing description of something! Hahahaha!
James Rogers 😂😂
that gave me danger days vibes
sounds like yo mama
@@AwkwardHypernerd413 hell yeah man
1979: "These damn kids with their loud boomboxes being obnoxious."
1980: "These damn kids with their personal Walkmen being anti-social."
2020: those damn kids with their “apple moosic” and “air poops”
Lol
I gotta be the only one who still uses Walkman on the train
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I was born in 1950, so I had a complete experience in all the retro items your series has featured. This episode hit me when you pointed out the isolation factor the Walkman introduced. Never thought about that back then, or even now, except for the isolation factor of the smartphone. I have felt that for years.
hellou. _ ) I was born 1979 - I really feel anger, frustration and dissapointment about How I did not care and keep safe my devices, Walkman, Headphones, Audio systems (aiwa, sony, panasonic) . the best thing now to me has been (this year ebay shop) to get an old Walkman FX45, not so good we know by age, other walkman FX43 unfortunelly I broke the Reverse-direction plastic controls one day later after receive it)
"i'll never forgive the japanese, but i do love my walkman" -joseph joestar
BebekGelap hell never forgive the Japanese yet hell still bang tomoko
Joseph Joestar is the best Jojo
I knew someone would comment this
They also invent the synthesizer
Forgive japanese for what?
It was an honor to test ancient tech with you and sing about being on fire--which the sony would probably survive 🙏🙏🙏
amazing episode, booking a trip to Woodbridge so we can run around w/ headphones on and see what happens
"Ancient tech" - lol.
@@treetopjones737 probably grew up with iPhones in hand, and probably doesn’t even know what comic books are
Lol it wasnt only ancient technology, it was ancient ideolgy. " walkman, diskman" why not walk woman, diskwoman.... people didn't care then I guess, or walklgbt+
@@sattikm_1824 calm your panties is just a joke
@@Mizzlenum उ
cant wait for: "Retro Tech: iPad" when I'm old.
Ipod or iphone 2g is more probable or even apple post steve jobs
@@blahdolphinjsjsjs3818 thanks
when your like 80, yeah.
RetroTech: VR
''Retro Tech: PlayStation 5'' by MKBHD son
The fact that it’s still around today is proof of it’s durability
Still have my toshiba walkman
@@1964-v1r How much do you you us it?
Its not working
Cant fix it ☺️
@@1964-v1r Damn. Sorry man
@@1964-v1r Maybe search up a tutorial?
Flexing not having RUclips Premium but being able to watch this
I'm on vanced. Is this a regular public video? I'm confused if vanced lets me do this
I'm not on vanced but I can still watch this what is going on
Zizzu I don’t have premium and I can watch this
Its so cool not having dumb kids in the comments.
Its not premium only anymore
This is probably the only time my RUclips Premium became useful
Sri Kanth you should see the ads non premium members are getting. I once used RUclips on someone else’s mobile and I was like, thank RUclips premium.
Same
Karate Kid is great. You should watch that
what about downloads and no ads
@@megaroeny Watch lazer team or ghostmates both good movie (in my opinion)
*Peter "StarLord" Quill has entered the chat*
WickedShadowChester hahaha I was thinking the same thing🤣
What is this band named Spotify?
"I used to think that working out with an iPod Touch was huge and clunky..."
Get off my lawn, whippersnapper.
Who?
Lol I got an awesome mix vol the second first and game version
I miss those Walkman Sports days in school. Grown up with a walkman, cd player, mini disk player, USB music player, iPod, iPod touch, iPhone and now its 2021. Crazy how it's evolved. Loved all of it and i wonder what's next!!
I was born in the 80s and lived through the end of it and the 90s as a child, I really appreciated this video, finally something to watch that bought back all the nostalgia, and I really appreciate Sony so much more now
Born in 2001 but still experiencing the walkman because cassette tapes is still popular in Indonesia till the early 2010s
Me too
Cassette tapes made Indonesia are the one with bulky plastic casings and using mostly metal tapes made by BASF and Maxell. Until now here in eBay UK they are still expensive worth at least not less than £15 if new and sealed. They sound like CDs.
@@redbishop71 wow, I dont' know if there's any other type of plastic casing. Brands that sell and manufacture their cassete tape in Indonesia was BASF, HDX, Maxell, 3M, Panarec (as far as I remember)
@@TunjungUtomo Yeah there is, the casing is made in one piece plastic , I think if I am not mistaken, they were called clam shell casings, and it’s just a one piece bulky plastic.
@@redbishop71 Metal oxide are the best, bearly any background hissing.
Here in Africa 🌍 old tech is much more common because it is the Tech's final resting place.
Bro you are lying I've never seen one of those in my life
@@felixkibet Really? Which part of Africa are you from? I had a Walkman when everyone else in America was using an iPod.
Exactly. I had a Walkman in the early to mid-2000’s
@@felixkibet huyu jamaa anatubeba ufala
Sub saharian africa? Not south africa or egypt or the islands of africa
all of my high school was spent plugged into a yellow sony sports walkman. I have 2 daughters that have broken every screen on every device they have ever owned and some broken ipods. WM-F45 sports walkman fell down stairs, went across school halls, slid across sidwalks and even went in the pool. Still played music easily.
Marques played safe and didn’t invite JerryRigEverything to dissemble it.
I agreed with you
Light scratches at a level 2, with deeper scratches at a level 3.
😂😂😂
I’m too young for the cassette version, but I did have a CD walkman with the big purple window thing on the front. Man that thing was cool.
That is not a walkman, that is called a Discman, for obvious reasons.
@@mikatu Interestingly they dropped the Discman name for portable CD Players and went back to the Walkman brand in 2000.. So a lot of people probably have a "CD Walkman".
@@dwindeyer Sony has turned "Walkman" into their term for any type of portable audio devices. I have a Walkman Digital Audio Player (NW-A55).
I'm Japanese.
For the first time, I learned that the Walkman was so loved by Americans.
Well that’s cool and what else did you learn about the west?
my dude it's loved worldwide not just America
Just like those Nintendos
Most Japanese tech is loved by westerners: Cars (Toyota, Honda, Nissan), TVs (Panasonic, Sony), Consoles (Nintendo, Sony, Sega up to some point)
@@20blog28 Yeah, dont know about Cars (I know Toyota is big). Cars that are used and loved the most are German cars (at least in Western societies) but with everything else I must agree, Nintendo and Sony are the Go To for me when it comes to consoles. Its because I can play everything else on a PC and those consoles have some good games on their own like Fire Emblem or Persona.
80's Kid Here! I remember the walkman very fondly :) Often had the cheap knockoffs, but the experience was what it was about, Taking my music everywhere. FYI The cheaper models often only had play, stop and fast-forward!
The iPod did not kill the Walkman!!! The Diskman killed it waaaaaaay before the iPod. The iPod killed the diskman
I agree!
I disagree. As someone who has, in the past, had a Walkman, a discman, and an iPod as my portable music player, I don't think the discman really killed the Walkman. At the time when the discman was gaining popularity, walkmans were tiny in comparison, in addition to sporting better battery life and durability. I distinctly remember that I could make my discman skip by sitting down a bit too quickly or riding in a car on a rough road. Not to mention, a Walkman could fit in my pocket, a discman could not. It wasn't until the iPod that there was a portable music player that was small enough to fit in your pocket, but didn't skip, and had good battery life
If I was going to be in a car, train, plane, or just stay in one place, I'd grab my discman. But if I was going to be walking or exercising, the Walkman was my choice
Oh, and there's one thing I forgot. You could record over a tape however many times you wanted, but up until 1991, when CD-R came out that you could make your own mix, and it wasn't until 1997, when CD-RW came out that you could reuse a disc several times. The first discman was released in 1984
Kevan Banngertir actually Walkman still around.
I had a Walkman in the late 80’s and a Discman in the 90’s... but NEVER had to repair one. Proud child of the 80’s raised in the 90’s
I was born in 76. Crazy and you and had this, saw the transition to CD, to where we are today. My parents saw the B&W TV to color TV
really? I've owned three, and only one of them still works, which is the sports model from the 90's.
well they were new products then. naturally after all this time you'd have to repair them, and there's not many if not ANY new walkmans coming out worth buying.
I dont have premium, so if you are reading this, continue on and dont tell youtube
Eeli Hakala ok
Why can I watch this video if I don’t have premium?
@@McSpanky Don't ask. Just enjoy it. 🤫
@@McSpanky Every week one episode will be free for us. With Premium you can watch the entire season right now.
@@McSpanky it's free, not premium. Though it's on RUclips originals
I LOVED my Walkman!! And those "clicky" buttons are mechanical buttons. When you press one down you are actually pressing down on a linkage of some kind thats making things inside happen. I also LOVED mix tapes!! Its hard to explain how new and how absolutely great mix tapes were.
It looks so comfy in the RUclips Premium lounge.
escpecially on a free trial
@@gracjackVEVO 😂😂😂👋🏼
not anymore
@@gijswinkelhuijzen7874 fuck, guys, take everything you have and run.
Free for all now. Enjoy paying for free shit though. Lol.
Thanks for that Nostalgic drive bud. I never used a Walkman when I lived in India but surely grew up with it's cheaper knockoffs. I sincerely wish and hope that SONY legacy would stay forever.
I am younger than Marques but I've spent my childhood listening music on Walkman...
Shree Sanglikar Why didn't you use CDs
@@jacobt1027 In India music CDs were luxury for a long time (except the pirated ones, which sucked).
My dad won the Walkman at a fuel station draw. It was very special.
&R3AV3R I know your real name! Aha!
@@shree203 are you eagered 'bout Demon Slayer movie.
Goes to show how long it's been since Sony's changed the game. "Sony invented the whole consumer electronics marketplace.The first transistor radio, the Trinitron television, the first consumer VCR, the Walkman, the audio CD...the innovation that they brought to the marketplace was staggering." --Steve Jobs
And don't forget the minidisc, the laserdisc, the betamax (not the VCR that was JVC), and the PlayStation that changed the market so much that Sega dropped the consoles market.
@ Joe Pup: Have to correct you there, Steve. Both the audio CD and audio cassette were inventions of Dutch company Philips. They also had the best VCR technology (Video 2000), but lost out to VHS, due to bad marketing and refusing to bring out porn on VCR.
@@rightuppercut1426 correction part II, the audio cd and cassette were a collaboration between Sony and Phillips.
Feel like this is what the comments section was always meant to be. Not a troll in sight.
Jesus Lopez amen
Yo, right.
Jesus Lopez Word bro
cause ain't no kids boutta pay for youtube so this is just adults i reckon
@@arbyfilesoh I've met my fair share of childish adults lol
I remember when my daughter found an old Walkman and I had to explain what it was and how it worked. i still remember her amazement at how something so big could hold so few songs. Still, she found the moving parts fascinating for an hour or so.
Hi, I'm Brazilian and I bought my walkman in 1982, and almost no one had one of these at the time, with it I made my own music selection to listen to wherever I went. The invention of this "gadget" was really revolutionary. And it made me feel very good, the music accompanied me wherever I went.
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Foi uma época muito legal. Meus pais puderam comprar pra mim, apenas o chines, que chamavamos de Paraguai, kkkk. E realmente, a experiência dos dispositivos analógicos eram unicas. Depois que fiquei independente financeiramente, acompanhei toda a evolução dos discman, mp3 players e por fim o matador de todas as tecnologias e o mais sem graça: o smartphone
“This is actually older than me” Jesus Christ I still have mine
When looking for actual stuff to see why sounds so dull.
Even I had one few years back
I've owned three, and i still own the one my uncle gave me.
Got a WM-DD33 with permanently fixed center gear.
My mom and grandmother still have one
Context: kids back then were used to repairing a lot of equipment generally. A broken Walkman was just another thing to repair.
Repairing the walkman, repairing cassette tape, & repairing your headphones.
Rewinding the tape with a pencil to save battery :D
@Kreature Feature nah, tech just became digital that's all, kids now know ten times more than kids back then, thanks to the internet and advancements in technology.
@Kreature Feature I mean social media distracts people but, instead of knowing quick fixes to walkmans/electrical appliances kids these days know useful shortcuts on computers/mobile and are taught to write lines of helpful codes at school, so yeah, they might not know about obsolete tech but boy, are they up to date with advanced tech
Kreature Feature the funny thing is these children will grow to become way smarter than you and me will ever dream of being, every generations becomes way smarter than it’s predecessors. You call them illiterate just like how the people before you would’ve said the same thing to you. Just sad
This is an awesome series! Love seeing old tech. Brings back so much nostalgia
Love all the stuff you do Marques! To me the Walkman was freedom. My Walkman and my 10 speed Schwinn. With those two I was able to find out who I was in the world. Thanks bud.
I'm 33 years old and the most Cool gift you can had as a child was a walkman. It changed our way to live forever. I want to see where we're going to be in 30 Years
Walkman in the 1990s??? I am 48 and they were cool when I was a kid, by the time you were 8 or 10 these were already superceded by CD Walkman
@@simonh6371 Yeah, but the Discman skipped a lot.
@@therealtrue842 True, I remember. So did cassette walkmen too, they used to make some (not original Sony) with anti-roll which were advertised as being suitable for joggers.
@@simonh6371 yes, walkman came in the 90s but before that this little guy was very popular, a basic item. At least in my country It became popular very late in the 90s until the anti-skip models arrived
I had a Walkman when I was a kid, it was my favorite Christmas gift ever
3:48 That Panasonic boom box in the window, I saved up for a long time to buy that thing. I still have it now in my garage as my shop radio!
The walkman was the thing to have back in the early 80's, before that all we had was the transistor radio to carry around with us and this made it possible for us to be able to play the music we wanted while walking around. It was truly the first portable player where we weren't listening to a radio station and for me, I would use my boombox to record music off the radio and then put it on a mixtape which I would play in my Walkman.
you should've called jerryrigeverything for the teardown
Plastic scratches at level 3!
@Adrian Toko "In that soothing voice"... at level 3 we open up those AA batteries and release that 30 year old acid. It spills over the circuit board... aaand we're done.
Greg Moore perfect
6:14
Me:what is she saying?
*turns on subtitles*
"Speaking Japanese"
Wow I understand now
Yes
ウォークマンわ余りにも軽いので
持っているのに
持っていない
Walkman is so light
It's like you have it
But you don't have it
I'm still learning Japanese but here's my translation. It fades out in 2nd line. 3rd line is not in this video, I had to find the source video to finish the sentence. Hope this helps! :)
@@jennyhoneypenny thank you lol
@@seadsea No problem! :) I was able to further my Japanese skills through this, too. Happy that it helps others.
@@jennyhoneypenny uP
I have never realized how young MKBHD is until I watched the retro tech series.
So weird to hear him say he's 25. He's had a successful channel for so long. I figured he was at least 30
What strikes me most is that I'm 26 and I played Sega Genesis and tried Sony Walkman when I was a kid. I guess that's because tech came late to Brazil meanwhile in US there was newer stuff.
@@gutobernardo7457 i m 19 even i have seen cassettes being used
This reminds me to the 90's era, the golden era. Pagers, walkman, discman, tamagotchi, payphone and many more. Those time, even before cellphone. It brings me back to high school memories.
Thank you, bro...
The Walkman made people back in the 80s anti-social.
2019 smartphones: That's cute
I think walkman realy make people anti social than smartphone..at least you can use social media with your smartphone to do "social" thing with people far from you
@@lghozalie1952 good point
@@lghozalie1952 it’s all an illusion, smoke and mirrors.
Reality, for example there are old photos of people in crowded public space and all reading a newspaper, ignoring others.
"I'm fine long as there's batteries in my Walkman" -Marshall Mathers
“nothing is the matter with me
Shit look at the bright side at least I ain't walking “
@@bubbyft3779 "I bike ride through the neighborhood of my apartment
Complex on a ten speed which I've acquired parts that I
Find in the garbage, a frame, then put tires on it
Headphones on look straight ahead if kids try and start shit"
These episodes are fantastic!! Brings back a FLOOD of memories!!
walkman
"Is it the height of antisocial behaviour?"
oh boy if only he knew
The Walkman should be one of greatest created technology product for mass consumption that started the world of portability. I don’t think people had any portable and useful electronics before that.
There were portable radios which allowed you to take music with you. What the Walkman did was give you the ability to take your own music with you rather than just having what was served up by your local radio stations.
Damn these RUclips premium chairs are comfy
Ikr. 😬
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lmfaooo
I feel like an intruder, I make so many accounts so I may use the free trails
@@user-rn6kq5qd5v if it works then it works
Young people will never know the dread of pulling out your cassette, and the tape was stuck inside the Walkman spools. Using a pencil to wind the tape back in was a past time of the 80s.
ok boomer
@Lord Farquaad this ain't a contest.. take it easy
Yes young people will? I'm 17 and this happens all the time to me
@@iamshelbyrose6005 I bet you're one of those "I was born in the wrong generation" cringe lords
@@mangoman0i299 nope, im very glad im in the generation i am in. i dont think enjoying retro stuff makes me want to live in that time. i love the conveniences of todays technology but i can still find things from the past interesting.
I am 82 years old and this was a wonderful background video about how the "Walkman" came about. You forgot to talk about the transition when the devices gained recordability. Otherwise, it was perfect.
I feel a little bit proud that, as a child in the 80s, I successfully repaired my Walkman several times. Different times for sure.
This explains why Peter Quill loves his Walkman .
Imagine going back in time and showing someone your Galaxy S20 Ultra.
Considering half it's data connection reliant features wouldn't work 😂
But yeah the screen alone would blow their minds.
You're holding a color TV + a photo camera + a typewriter in a little postcard which has no batteries???
Dude what's the trick? 20$ for you to show me this awesome magic trick.
@@toniodotcom my money says ill get stoned to death, burned or drowned for being a witch with the magic
@@lunchie80 we'd get executed for high end tech my g, especially if they dont believe its future tech. maybe we're aliens to them HAHAHA
*/The FBI would want to know your location/*
Of all the great videos on this channel...
THIS is easily one of the BEST yet!
"a motor, that's something you don't see in today's tech" *pop up cameras have entered the chat*
I've never actually seen one of these!😵 That girl saying that made me feel 100 years old! I'm 42 lol! I had so many Walkmans or a generic versions of it when I was teenager it was a must have on your way to school or work
I was 18 years old in 1980 when a friend let me listen to their Sony Walkman for the first time. The album on cassette that I listened to was Billy Joel 'Glass Houses'. I was amazed at how incredible the Walkman sounded, in fact really I was blown away by it. The unfortunate thing about it was that the Sony Walkman was somewhere in the $300 range if I remember correct, which was out of the price range for an 18 year old working full time during the day and going to college at night.
Prices fell pretty quick, though, as the knock-offs flooded the market. Of course, the Sonys were always a bit more expensive just becaus of the name on them.
Memories ❤️. I’m 61 and got one of the first ones. It truly did seem revolutionary.
Yes. Walkman was not just a product. It opened a new era in culture, tradition, lifestyle and industry.
“you shouldn’t have killed my mom and squished my Walkman!”
Just what I was searching for😂😂
Nice refrence from guardians of the galaxy
NotoriusDrifter hhhhhh me too
The biggest casualty of the movie
I had the silver Walkman 2 with the detachable belt clip and external backup battery pack. The headphones had the orange earpieces and the hot line button built into the cord. I had a ton of cassette tapes. We would record our albums and CD’s onto cassette to listen to on the Walkman and in the car. Good times back then.
It’s amazing how far we’ve come with technology.
Walkman : Double headphone jacks
Phones now: what are those?
1980: 2 headphone jacks
2020: No jack
Jackshit
2060: -1 Jack
@@Treetops27 I love this comment
Bruh 2060 Headphone jack is shit. They're going to force us to buy the blueshit one
10% comments: about the actual video
90% comments: "Flexing My RUclips Premium "
Sike, I dont have it and here I am
YouGadget TV wait what’s so good about it if I can see the same stuff without it?
@@constant3273 ikr
@@constant3273 that you dont need to wait... Apparently
Lol
I had to work for 3 months in my paper route job to afford my first walkman. But when I saved up the $100 it was so worth it! Completely changed how I consumed music. Genius invention!
Cassettes lived more than CD discs.And I'm glad that this era touched me.
Discmans were never that portable and it took a while for the anti-skip technology to become popular
I just wanted to point out that your lighting and camrawork is just AWESOME! That's why I love your channel
“As big as the Empire State Building and as loud as WWII.” Lmaoo love it
First time I ever heard 'headphones' was on a Walkman.
Blew my mind, fact that sound so full it rivalled a good boom box could come from tiny speakers on your ears.
Without those first great MDR headphones, Walkman would have flopped.
It was Walkman-type players that got me to start using headphones. Growing up headphones were these massive over-the-ear headphones that were uncomfortable and hot. With the Walkman, you started to see headphones that were smaller, lighter, and more comfortable to wear, and took much less power to drive them. Now, I can wear my headphones for hours if I need to.
Flexing my RUclips premium here.
Same here
Angel Ramirez same
Same
gang
Haha
This series is dope! Being a kid from the 80’s 90’s. Damn! So many memories!
1979 Sony Walkman is making people anti social
2019 Smartphone: hold my beer
That literally made me lol.
Was just searching for a comment like this :D
I think walkman realy make people anti social than smartphone..at least you can use social media with your smartphone to do "social" thing with people far from you
Hold my powerbank
1979 Walkman: Back in my day...
2019 Smartphone: Shut your face Grandpa!!
Wow, this brings back so many memories of my childhood. I had several Walkmans from the early 80’s into the mid 90s.
This blew me away, Marques not saying “ So I have been using this for last 2weeks”
I don’t have a Walkman or Discman anymore but I still have thousands of the cassettes & CD’s that I played in them!
Apple : I changed the music industry
Sony: Hold my Walkman 🖤
Not at all... *iPod Impact was much Higher than Sony on the Industry, basically made those Physical Record studios go Bankrupt* .... Accept it or Not ......
I had several of those. Different models to be sure.
But my first one was just like that one. But it was in 1983 / 84, it had fm am as well. Soooooo very cool. 😎
Toward the later days they had bass boost and the Sony turbo head phones. The air buds of the time. Totally bad ass.
I absolutely love this series…. It’s crazy I am 46 yrs old now and I had one as a a matter affect I sill have some of these at home.
“You would make your own mixtape and give it to your friends”
“Hi my name is Hannah baker and this is my story…”
13 reasons why :)
First season was the best
🤣🤣🤣
Ahh, jammed cassette.. Such a classic problems i don't miss at all
Love this!!! ...I remember having a ‘Walkman’ from the early 80s when I was a kid. Only downside to them, is they would sometimes chew up cassettes. But still a brilliant device to play music. I still have all my cassettes from the 80s.
*TechMoan has entered the chat*
Sees them trying to replace belts
*"What the f-"*
The Retro Future as well
*8 bit guy has entered the chat*
*i like your thinking bud*
Reading this in his voice is hilarious
😅😋😂
I never really experienced the walkman, considering that I was born in Pakistan in 2003 but cassette tapes are one of the most beautiful memories of my early childhood. My mom and aunt had a whole bunch of cassettes of regional languages and I really enjoyed them. Brings back a lot of memories
wow same here! two years later
I remember as a kid how happy I was when I've got my walkman as a birthday gift, and I have never left home without this companion. I think it is also a great way to lissten to the music of 80s and 90s with an audio cassette , because this is the way it meant to sound, with all that imperfections but then also with sone of that analog charm.
It's weird watching someone older than me struggle with cassette tapes. In my house growing up we had CDs and cassetes
Kaleb Sings I heard that
I’m now realizing that my high school still gives out headphones from the 70’s
The tape getting caught....Flashbacks from HELL!! lol
Yeah we'd carefully pull out the tangled mess and then snipe off the really damaged part and then glue it back and you were good to go . . . but some of the music wus forever lost
I used to have CD Walkman in my early teen years, listening to hanson and just strolling around the neighborhood bought back memories. I do remember the tape cassette, but I don't recall having one Walkman version.
Hanson was great
oh yeah! i remember my first walkman in 1987, god! how i loved that thing.
What the Sony Walkman also allowed besides music recordings was the concept of the "mobile lesson plans." You could learn something new, take a course, learn a new language or improve in what you knew, relisten to a college lecture from earlier and it opened up that sort of "recorded lesson plan by voice" industry.
Also audiobooks. Cassettes made it practical to take audiobooks with you on the go.
11:32 “hight of anti social behaviour”
2019: I’m about to end this whole mans career
Then they created games.
Babatunde Bandanahead then they created VR
Ok Boomer
I wish he would have that raja lady dance
2020: Im about to mask this whole mans career