RETRO TECH: WALKMAN

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When the Sony Walkman hit the market in the 1970s, it was the first time we were able to take our music with us on-the-go. I explore this iconic piece of tech-from the inspiration behind its compact design to how it changed portable audio forever. I also enlist the help of fellow RU-vid creator Judner A.K.A. Uravgconsumer to fix a busted Walkman. The Gregory Brothers join me to test out whether a vintage Walkman is durable enough to survive a game of ultimate frisbee.
0:00 The Walkman
1:03 Unboxing A Walkman
3:07 Talking Walkmen
6:52 Fixing With Judner Aura
11:07 The Walkman Experience
14:15 Dope Or Nope
17:09 The Cassette Tape
18:12 The Sports Walkman
21:49 Lasting Tech Legacy

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1 дек 2019

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@prakharagrawal8934 4 года назад

Marques normally: I have been using this for a while now Marques in retro series: I have never used it before in my life

@diegosalcedo6295 4 года назад

Honestly though

@swarup.mondal 4 года назад

😂😂😂😂

@creatormaytv1251 4 года назад

😂😂😂😂😂

@terencemilner6319 4 года назад

Prakhar Agrawal g

@Hammer1 4 года назад

@Commander Spock what

@danielbustillo3055 4 года назад

The best part was to watch this without having RU-vid premium.

@mligaming1993 4 года назад

@M0nkZer0 4 года назад

Is it only available usually to premium?

@lordturtle8735 4 года назад

RU-vid recently made their "Premium" content available to everyone.

@batman_2004 4 года назад

Fuk. I need my money back.

@pronto3_ 4 года назад

ikr

@kahinoart 2 года назад

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.

@Great_America 2 года назад

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 👍🏻

@ReddoFreddo 3 года назад

1979: "These damn kids with their loud boomboxes being obnoxious." 1980: "These damn kids with their personal Walkmen being anti-social."

@a_prsn 3 года назад

2020: those damn kids with their “apple moosic” and “air poops”

@requiem165 3 года назад

Lol

@sushitrash-dj9vq 3 года назад

I gotta be the only one who still uses Walkman on the train

@hassnblhtake4976 3 года назад

@@requiem165 b

@Shpektrometer 3 года назад

@@sushitrash-dj9vq F

@DetroitMuscle 3 года назад

Man the mixtape part is so important. Making a tape for your girlfriend was a real thing in the 90s. Thumbs up

@TheSulross 3 года назад

Jason Epps but who hasn't done that special playlist of tunes for their girl? Still happening

@Extratone 3 года назад

definitely still happening. we’ve just optimized it.

@ericbeltrami2718 2 года назад

You did that to?

@user-ck8kp8vb4l 2 года назад

Now we make playlists for each other and thats still pretty cute imo

@chrisjfox8715 2 года назад

@@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

@dperr338 2 года назад

The fact that it’s still around today is proof of it’s durability

@user-ip6kk5ic3e 2 года назад

Still have my toshiba walkman

@Jackson-il1sn Год назад

@@user-ip6kk5ic3e How much do you you us it?

@user-ip6kk5ic3e Год назад

Its not working Cant fix it ☺️

@Jackson-il1sn Год назад

@@user-ip6kk5ic3e Damn. Sorry man

@Jackson-il1sn Год назад

@@user-ip6kk5ic3e Maybe search up a tutorial?

@mr.g354 3 года назад

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.

@CharlieTheNerd91 3 года назад

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... :)

@sabrynzky 2 года назад

Yes

@nicolasbrunet8243 2 года назад

That's actually so interesting I never thought of different markets that way!

@darshanhonnavar2508 2 года назад

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 🤔🤔

@Mizzlenum 2 года назад

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.

@TwinMillMC 2 года назад

Wow you're 29? You must have grown up with some real antiques back then.

@filmphilosophy4668 4 года назад

"as big as the Empire State Building and as loud as world War II" if that isn't the greatest description of anything ever.

@hl6816 4 года назад

Oh my gosh I died laughing at that. It's such an amazing description of something! Hahahaha!

@lala9251 4 года назад

James Rogers 😂😂

@AwkwardHypernerd413 4 года назад

that gave me danger days vibes

@BangThaBazie 3 года назад

sounds like yo mama

@GavinFromWeb 3 года назад

@@AwkwardHypernerd413 hell yeah man

@yahtzeejimbob Год назад

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.

@georgemartinezza Год назад

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)

@Emjackson89 3 года назад

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!!

@AA-eu4mx 4 года назад

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

@sheskates6551 2 года назад

🤣🤣🤣🤣 love it

@L0kias1 2 года назад

😂 yup , my mom did too

@windyhawthorn7387 2 года назад

My dad's first flip photo with an built in music player was called an walkman and everyone was super impressed.

@AB1B1 2 года назад

😂 Dad's the coolest

@nimaljacob3257 2 года назад

😃

@henrybalani7093 3 года назад

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!

@anuardelcastillo2627 2 года назад

love your comment! my sister turned 14 and got one, I was eleven and got schocked as well!!

@DerpyDimentio Год назад

That honestly sounds like an awesome experience. Being taken aback by something so transformative at the time.

@Juan-rd5jf 11 месяцев назад

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)

@b0tterman 4 месяца назад

I was the same age. It was one of those tech products that you didn't know you absolutely needed.

@vishnudas5026 3 года назад

Apple : I changed the music industry Sony: Hold my Walkman 🖤

@DhrubajyotiRaja01 2 года назад

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 ......

@nosson2842 4 года назад

Flexing not having RU-vid Premium but being able to watch this

@kingYR007 4 года назад

I'm on vanced. Is this a regular public video? I'm confused if vanced lets me do this

@leblanc69069 4 года назад

I'm not on vanced but I can still watch this what is going on

@McSpanky 4 года назад

Zizzu I don’t have premium and I can watch this

@AllstarFail 4 года назад

Its so cool not having dumb kids in the comments.

@mar2ck_ 4 года назад

Its not premium only anymore

@bimomuzakki9379 4 года назад

"i'll never forgive the japanese, but i do love my walkman" -joseph joestar

@bigwheelfromspidamahn1037 4 года назад

BebekGelap hell never forgive the Japanese yet hell still bang tomoko

@JacksonWalter735 4 года назад

Joseph Joestar is the best Jojo

@melonemusk 4 года назад

I knew someone would comment this

@josh44026 4 года назад

They also invent the synthesizer

@CercaTrova13 4 года назад

Forgive japanese for what?

@gibu002 3 года назад

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.

@kevystead 2 года назад

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!

@JB-qn6rb 4 года назад

Back in the days where making a mix tape was a legit skill.

@bluechipsss 4 года назад

Yes mixtape and Playlist, and art cover

@quintencabo 4 года назад

Amazing! I could see myself really getting in to that if mixtapes where relavent today.

@cedrickjmackniddle3861 4 года назад

Still a skill

@AwkwardHypernerd413 4 года назад

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.

@cedrickjmackniddle3861 4 года назад

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

@delightfulsquirtle316 4 года назад

cant wait for: "Retro Tech: iPad" when I'm old.

@blahdolphinjsjsjs3818 3 года назад

Ipod or iphone 2g is more probable or even apple post steve jobs

@jenicazhafira9104 3 года назад

@@blahdolphinjsjsjs3818 thanks

@Gadget-Walkmen 3 года назад

when your like 80, yeah.

@ajax7699 3 года назад

RetroTech: VR

@johnt1461 3 года назад

''Retro Tech: PlayStation 5'' by MKBHD son

@lhead7226 2 года назад

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.

@123akash121 3 года назад

walkman "Is it the height of antisocial behaviour?" oh boy if only he knew

@user-is7sx2ps1q 4 года назад

I'm Japanese. For the first time, I learned that the Walkman was so loved by Americans.

@OttoWatt9000 3 года назад

Well that’s cool and what else did you learn about the west?

@mustafaal-ghezi1757 3 года назад

my dude it's loved worldwide not just America

@raiNjErs 2 года назад

Just like those Nintendos

@20blog28 2 года назад

Most Japanese tech is loved by westerners: Cars (Toyota, Honda, Nissan), TVs (Panasonic, Sony), Consoles (Nintendo, Sony, Sega up to some point)

@buuhan6808 2 года назад

@@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.

@srikanth_y 4 года назад

This is probably the only time my RU-vid Premium became useful

@mouri_p 4 года назад

Sri Kanth you should see the ads non premium members are getting. I once used RU-vid on someone else’s mobile and I was like, thank RU-vid premium.

@Dixon_Cider407 4 года назад

Same

@megaroeny 4 года назад

Karate Kid is great. You should watch that

@tabbycat406 4 года назад

what about downloads and no ads

@JessieJamesPlays 4 года назад

@@megaroeny Watch lazer team or ghostmates both good movie (in my opinion)

@philipohmes9395 2 года назад

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.

@BreakTime10101 6 месяцев назад

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.

@schmoyoho 4 года назад

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

@treetopjones737 3 года назад

"Ancient tech" - lol.

@sattikm_1824 2 года назад

@@treetopjones737 probably grew up with iPhones in hand, and probably doesn’t even know what comic books are

@Mizzlenum 2 года назад

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+

@bbpd5315 2 года назад

@@sattikm_1824 calm your panties is just a joke

@vijaychouhan189 Год назад

@@Mizzlenum उ

@wickedshadowchester6297 4 года назад

*Peter "StarLord" Quill has entered the chat*

@feeldabassline6657 4 года назад

WickedShadowChester hahaha I was thinking the same thing🤣

@toniodotcom 3 года назад

What is this band named Spotify?

@vapelord3673 3 года назад

"I used to think that working out with an iPod Touch was huge and clunky..." Get off my lawn, whippersnapper.

@nathsu29 3 года назад

Who?

@freshapple5484 3 года назад

Lol I got an awesome mix vol the second first and game version

@mr.dankman Год назад

When I was a young teenager, I used to skateboard around with my walkman on and I carried a backpack with a bunch of cassettes and spare batteries. Now I can carry 5000x more music in my pocket. Amazing

@barriniho 11 месяцев назад

And watch movies on a phone 🤳

@rattlhed1 3 года назад

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!

@cd6834 2 года назад

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.

@leogrievous 4 года назад

It looks so comfy in the RU-vid Premium lounge.

@gracjackVEVO 4 года назад

escpecially on a free trial

@predeeshshibu595 4 года назад

@@gracjackVEVO 😂😂😂👋🏼

@gijswinkelhuijzen7874 4 года назад

not anymore

@leogrievous 4 года назад

@@gijswinkelhuijzen7874 fuck, guys, take everything you have and run.

@thegoodguy44 4 года назад

Free for all now. Enjoy paying for free shit though. Lol.

@eelihakala4466 4 года назад

I dont have premium, so if you are reading this, continue on and dont tell youtube

@light.lawliet 4 года назад

Eeli Hakala ok

@McSpanky 4 года назад

Why can I watch this video if I don’t have premium?

@alexgutierrez5056 4 года назад

@@McSpanky Don't ask. Just enjoy it. 🤫

@pesfreak18 4 года назад

@@McSpanky Every week one episode will be free for us. With Premium you can watch the entire season right now.

@progadgetreviewpgr7122 4 года назад

@@McSpanky it's free, not premium. Though it's on RU-vid originals

@francisconicacio7115 Год назад

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

@josielsondesouza Год назад

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

@mistytharpe3991 2 года назад

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.

@mr_c.i.c 4 года назад

Here in Africa 🌍 old tech is much more common because it is the Tech's final resting place.

@felixkibet 3 года назад

Bro you are lying I've never seen one of those in my life

@mr_c.i.c 3 года назад

@@felixkibet Really? Which part of Africa are you from? I had a Walkman when everyone else in America was using an iPod.

@idrisb07 3 года назад

Exactly. I had a Walkman in the early to mid-2000’s

@asiraallan2156 3 года назад

@@felixkibet huyu jamaa anatubeba ufala

@canalaleatorio3011 3 года назад

Sub saharian africa? Not south africa or egypt or the islands of africa

@joepup8348 4 года назад

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

@mikatu 2 года назад

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.

@rightuppercut1426 2 года назад

@ 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.

@theminec 2 года назад

@@rightuppercut1426 correction part II, the audio cd and cassette were a collaboration between Sony and Phillips.

@ronnalrikardo6841 2 года назад

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...

@Steven-bg2lo 3 года назад

I loved how you covered the culture of fixing stuff. Fun watching you and Judner go through the process of fixing a walkman. Watching you hunt for a dropped screw brought me back. Small screws, springs and parts left over but in the end we got things working again.

@everything80spodcast68 4 года назад

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.

@ikuuuya 4 года назад

ok boomer

@radzilla748 4 года назад

@Lord Farquaad this ain't a contest.. take it easy

@iamshelbyrose6005 4 года назад

Yes young people will? I'm 17 and this happens all the time to me

@mangoman0i299 4 года назад

@@iamshelbyrose6005 I bet you're one of those "I was born in the wrong generation" cringe lords

@iamshelbyrose6005 4 года назад

@@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.

@ABDIRAHMAN_A 4 года назад

Marques played safe and didn’t invite JerryRigEverything to dissemble it.

@PhoHmooAmerica 4 года назад

I agreed with you

@KalebMarshallDulcimerPlayer 4 года назад

Light scratches at a level 2, with deeper scratches at a level 3.

@renjuscreativeworld4037 4 года назад

😂😂😂

@kevkeisha 2 года назад

Of all the great videos on this channel... THIS is easily one of the BEST yet!

@outermarker5801 3 года назад

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.

@Rugerman205 4 года назад

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

@davidsteckley8846 4 года назад

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

@AwkwardHypernerd413 4 года назад

really? I've owned three, and only one of them still works, which is the sports model from the 90's.

@AnotherWorldYT 3 года назад

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.

@ff_crafter 3 года назад

Born in 2001 but still experiencing the walkman because cassette tapes is still popular in Indonesia till the early 2010s

@randomrealistictone2231 2 года назад

Me too

@redbishop71 2 года назад

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.

@TunjungUtomo 2 года назад

@@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)

@redbishop71 2 года назад

@@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.

@trespire 2 года назад

@@redbishop71 Metal oxide are the best, bearly any background hissing.

@tomnudho4202 2 года назад

oh yeah! i remember my first walkman in 1987, god! how i loved that thing.

@tonywillans7556 9 месяцев назад

This is hilarious. I'm 57 so very much remember Walkmans although I never had one.

@Krolla03 4 года назад

The iPod did not kill the Walkman!!! The Diskman killed it waaaaaaay before the iPod. The iPod killed the diskman

@Reneg8d_Ren 4 года назад

I agree!

@ethanlandau6333 4 года назад

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

@ethanlandau6333 4 года назад

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

@ethanlandau6333 4 года назад

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

@cristianflores1588 4 года назад

Kevan Banngertir actually Walkman still around.

@shree203 4 года назад

I am younger than Marques but I've spent my childhood listening music on Walkman...

@jacobt1027 4 года назад

Shree Sanglikar Why didn't you use CDs

@shree203 4 года назад

@@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.

@matteblack2391 3 года назад

&R3AV3R I know your real name! Aha!

@BlueCircle0 3 года назад

@@shree203 are you eagered 'bout Demon Slayer movie.

@ChristopherMarshburn Год назад

Memories ❤️. I’m 61 and got one of the first ones. It truly did seem revolutionary.

@TazawaTanks 3 года назад

Wow, this brings back so many memories of my childhood. I had several Walkmans from the early 80’s into the mid 90s.

@rainpatch4358 4 года назад

The Walkman made people back in the 80s anti-social. 2019 smartphones: That's cute

@lghozalie1952 4 года назад

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

@Dezsr 4 года назад

@@lghozalie1952 good point

@sirquacksalot6463 3 года назад

@@lghozalie1952 it’s all an illusion, smoke and mirrors.

@treetopjones737 3 года назад

Reality, for example there are old photos of people in crowded public space and all reading a newspaper, ignoring others.

@senortizzle 4 года назад

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.

@mikatu 2 года назад

That is not a walkman, that is called a Discman, for obvious reasons.

@dwindeyer 2 года назад

@@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".

@benscr 3 года назад

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.

@yeahimageek6090 3 года назад

What a fantastic piece of kit this was. Paved the way for portable music. This series is great. We need a season 2!

@abhishek.3x 4 года назад

Walkman : Double headphone jacks Phones now: what are those?

@JesusLopezB 4 года назад

Feel like this is what the comments section was always meant to be. Not a troll in sight.

@blumac9801 4 года назад

Jesus Lopez amen

@batman_2004 4 года назад

Yo, right.

@lukahmei2000 4 года назад

Jesus Lopez Word bro

@arbyfiles 4 года назад

cause ain't no kids boutta pay for youtube so this is just adults i reckon

@JesusLopezB 4 года назад

@@arbyfilesoh I've met my fair share of childish adults lol

@flo5980 4 месяца назад

Man I love all the retro tech episodes you make, super good delivery, so informative and fun to watch as always

@shravanparepally3551 4 года назад

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.

@RaviSankarRao1 4 года назад

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.

@alexanderpopov4691 2 года назад

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.

@MrJgonzo23 2 года назад

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.

@mitcheverett9564 4 года назад

“This is actually older than me” Jesus Christ I still have mine

@chuheihkg 4 года назад

When looking for actual stuff to see why sounds so dull.

@renjuscreativeworld4037 4 года назад

Even I had one few years back

@AwkwardHypernerd413 4 года назад

I've owned three, and i still own the one my uncle gave me.

@LogiForce86 4 года назад

Got a WM-DD33 with permanently fixed center gear.

@explosionfpv 3 года назад

My mom and grandmother still have one

@cainbradley8697 4 года назад

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

@iammattbarker 2 года назад

When Marques' tape jammed my childhood came flooding back.

@jsenear 4 месяца назад

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.

@thecockerel86 4 года назад

Context: kids back then were used to repairing a lot of equipment generally. A broken Walkman was just another thing to repair.

@DavidDcruz 4 года назад

Repairing the walkman, repairing cassette tape, & repairing your headphones.

@toniodotcom 3 года назад

Rewinding the tape with a pencil to save battery :D

@siddhanthbhattacharyya4206 3 года назад

@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.

@siddhanthbhattacharyya4206 3 года назад

@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

@lolom8772 3 года назад

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

@parthoomphy7214 4 года назад

10% comments: about the actual video 90% comments: "Flexing My RU-vid Premium "

@openlink9958 4 года назад

Sike, I dont have it and here I am

@constant3273 4 года назад

YouGadget TV wait what’s so good about it if I can see the same stuff without it?

@dv9239 4 года назад

@@constant3273 ikr

@openlink9958 4 года назад

@@constant3273 that you dont need to wait... Apparently

@chernteh1338 4 года назад

Lol

@jeromecubelo8152 3 года назад

I had a Walkman before which broke the rubber that runs the tape...I was very difficult to find a replacement rubber here in the Philippines, so what I did was find an old bike tire interior and I fashioned the rubber to the same circumference of the broken one...to my surprise, it worked which I did not expect...

@crossbowsniper 2 года назад

Man I still have two walkmans. I had the clear acrylic one, and then the one my mom had that she gave me because I said I could fix it (which I did because it was the band issue you covered in the video). The one I got for fixing it was KICK ass. It was the UPGRADED version of the Sony walkman sport, it had a two way clip (lift up at bottom then pull off the cover to open and change tapes), improved battery compartment location (UNDER the tape so now your tape had to fall out first before the batteries could), a rubber gasket to prevent water from getting in, and an AM/FM radio all inside that cool little piece of tech.

@eloizin 4 года назад

"I'm fine long as there's batteries in my Walkman" -Marshall Mathers

@bubbyft3779 4 года назад

“nothing is the matter with me Shit look at the bright side at least I ain't walking “

@ceciladams4882 4 года назад

@@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"

@booboo3560 4 года назад

This show is like that school project that you’re mad passionate about but nobody else wants to see

@sibtainafridi9197 4 года назад

what you talking about, I feel like many people want to see it

@davidvasqz4934 4 года назад

I want to see it

@potatopotahto5824 4 года назад

GAHAHAHAHAHAHA

@user-os8sq3uh4n 4 года назад

Yeah old people suck and stuff

@user-os8sq3uh4n 4 года назад

Yeah old people suck and stuff

@f1rstclass289 3 года назад

I still love and create and listen to mix Cassettes. I love the Sony Walkman. Sharing, while active duty n the Military. To save on batteries, I literally used a Bic Ink Pen 🖊 to spin and Rewind all my Cassettes. It really works awesome. And still have an extensive Cassette collection.

@rameshkamath72 2 года назад

It was wayback in 1985 when I first saw and listened to a Walkman. What pleasant memories!

@dominus6695 4 года назад

1980: 2 headphone jacks 2020: No jack

@Treetops27 3 года назад

Jackshit

@davidrenz1534 3 года назад

2060: -1 Jack

@kameahmeahkid6907 3 года назад

@@Treetops27 I love this comment

@sushitrash-dj9vq 3 года назад

Bruh 2060 Headphone jack is shit. They're going to force us to buy the blueshit one

@maxcarp805 4 года назад

"a motor, that's something you don't see in today's tech" *pop up cameras have entered the chat*

@ohiorichkidbeats 9 месяцев назад

I'm n 40s, stuff like this is very interesting and quite satisfying.. good memories❤

@ericjenks9596 2 года назад

You’re 8 years younger than me, but man what a difference in experience growing up. I used a walkman style casette player until high school in 2000 or so, when someone gave me their discman.

@cman7113 4 года назад

“You would make your own mixtape and give it to your friends” “Hi my name is Hannah baker and this is my story…”

@Jakenurmi 4 года назад

13 reasons why :)

@iwiatua6735 4 года назад

First season was the best

@MohdSyafiqHassan 4 года назад

🤣🤣🤣

@yesicahernandez4868 4 года назад

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

@simonh6371 4 года назад

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

@therealtrue842 4 года назад

@@simonh6371 Yeah, but the Discman skipped a lot.

@simonh6371 4 года назад

@@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.

@yesicahernandez4868 2 года назад

@@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

@bhoqeem1975 Месяц назад

I was 4 years old in 1979. The 80s were the best decade to really feel the Walkman hype.

@KawaiiCat2 Год назад

I live in LA and there’s still people here that carry a boom box around. Sometimes on the bike and sometimes on the train. It always brings back nostalgic feels.

@georgerixon11 4 года назад

Damn these RU-vid premium chairs are comfy

@batman_2004 4 года назад

Ikr. 😬

@Mkhl4Sure 4 года назад

💯💯💯

@EverettEvJenkins 4 года назад

lmfaooo

@user-rn6kq5qd5v 4 года назад

I feel like an intruder, I make so many accounts so I may use the free trails

@Mkhl4Sure 4 года назад

@@user-rn6kq5qd5v if it works then it works

@KayvonJavid 4 года назад

1979 Sony Walkman is making people anti social 2019 Smartphone: hold my beer

@nlaplaca 4 года назад

That literally made me lol.

@FabiSahne 4 года назад

Was just searching for a comment like this :D

@lghozalie1952 4 года назад

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

@li_tsz_fung 4 года назад

Hold my powerbank

@Alr1ghtyThen 4 года назад

1979 Walkman: Back in my day... 2019 Smartphone: Shut your face Grandpa!!

@slb902 3 года назад

Today I learned that there's an actual sport called professional frisbee, Thanks Marques!

@haegeum3040 2 года назад

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.

@apinchofdisappointment 8 месяцев назад

Hanson was great

@Sledmog 4 года назад

I feel a little bit proud that, as a child in the 80s, I successfully repaired my Walkman several times. Different times for sure.

@Afromite 4 года назад

I have never realized how young MKBHD is until I watched the retro tech series.

@turbodude 4 года назад

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

@gutobernardo7457 4 года назад

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.

@pargatsingh594 4 года назад

@@gutobernardo7457 i m 19 even i have seen cassettes being used

@philr3381 7 месяцев назад

Never had a Sony walkman but I will always remember getting my Coby portable cassette player at Kmart in the early 90s and listening to Blues Traveler's Four tape. Hahaha...Loved it!

@Gritt982 2 года назад

I enjoyed the 90s walkman players that were almost as slim as a cassette and has a in line remote control and auto reverse! You could keep the device in your bag or pocket and still have all the controls. It even had automatic music search to skip tracks, you just had to wait for it. I still have one and it's fully operational.

@teacherdude 3 года назад

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.

@r4ptoritachi 4 года назад

6:14 Me:what is she saying? *turns on subtitles* "Speaking Japanese" Wow I understand now

@seadsea 3 года назад

Yes

@jennyhoneypark 3 года назад

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! :)

@seadsea 3 года назад

@@jennyhoneypark thank you lol

@jennyhoneypark 3 года назад

@@seadsea No problem! :) I was able to further my Japanese skills through this, too. Happy that it helps others.

@ADeeSHUPA 3 года назад

@@jennyhoneypark uP

@atikanatasoy 2 года назад

this novelty is a great idea and i truely enjoyed every moment of it!

@Vikanuck 2 года назад

Aw man, seeing that mixtape brought back the memory I totally forgot about how we used to speak to each other in the language of song names lol. Like at 18:10, that was the sassiest playlist right there, with every song title being something you would sarcastically say to that person, or just have it be about the two of you in some silly way. Obviously starting by getting into the groove, then just a bunch of sexual puns, and him/her telling the other person they like them, to Stayin’ Alive, which is what their relationship would like, totally do 😉 haha. I really do miss the 90’s a lot sometimes 😢

@CedricKarlFonk Год назад

We did that in the 80s

@shakarussanders9911 4 года назад

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

@theyeetman1817 4 года назад

“you shouldn’t have killed my mom and squished my Walkman!”

@notoriusdrifter40 4 года назад

Just what I was searching for😂😂

@sridevivishnubhatla8996 4 года назад

Nice refrence from guardians of the galaxy

@user-cv6kg6ri6r 4 года назад

NotoriusDrifter hhhhhh me too

@-caesarian-6078 4 года назад

The biggest casualty of the movie

@StudioPowerful Месяц назад

I use a walkman daily to listen to my music! It's such a nice experience and break from the overwhelming tech of today

@CSltz 2 года назад

This stuff was such a life/work changing technology. What a time to be alive. Used these at work when the rule was one ear had to be uncovered. I remember trying to rewire a pair of over the ear headphones to plug into a transistor radio. What the best part of the stuff today is. Being able to get to the song you want and skipping the ones you don’t.