When you turn 30, it takes less and less to make you feel old. Case in point for me is the reaction of a British teenager whom the BBC convinced to give up his iPod to carry around a Walkman for a week.
An no, not a “Walkman” as in Sony’s MP3 players. Scott Campbell carried around a portable cassette player. Taunts and ridicule from his peers made him eager to give it up, although there was some technological confusion, too – for example, it took Scott a bit to figure out that the tapes were two-sided.
And of course, Scott complains about the size, the shortage of music on a single tape, and other inconveniences – but probably because these damn kids today with their music don’t know what us children of the 80’s had to go through…
Jim Eltringham 