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On the night of June 30, , Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox. One of the largest military conflicts in North American history begins on July 1, , when Union and Confederate forces collide at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The invention of the record would establish itself as one of the main ways to listen to and record music for decades to come.
By the s, the most popular way to listen to music, the news, or even hear presidential debates live was through radio. It quickly became the best way to disseminate information and provide entertainment. This was the decade where the talk show soared. According to NPR, American families listened to the radio "for three or four hours every day. In the s, jukeboxes were everywhere — at its highest point, there were more than , across America, in diners, cafes, and nightclubs.
However, the presence of the jukebox began to drastically decline just a decade later. While radio was still in its height of popularity, the record was inching toward dominating the way people listened to music by the midth century. Records that were once made of materials like glass and wax soon became easier to manufacture using vinyl plastic — which effectively turned the act of listening to music into more of private hobby rather than a social or familial event.
The 8-track did not have a long shelf life. Invented by Bill Lear in , the popularity of the 'Stereo 8' format was quickly killed by the cassette player, introduced in the early s, which allowed people to record their own audio using a similar device.
In , the New York Times wrote that the cassette player was "the most eagerly wished-for of all gifts. This gave birth to the mixtape era, in which people could record songs they heard on the radio. Maybe one of the most visibly iconic music-listening devices, the boombox made its rise in the mid-'70s as a way to play tunes anywhere, and loudly — each contained nearly " decibels of power-packed bass," NPR wrote.
It was in the '80s when noise ordinances were introduced in major cities like New York, according to NPR. Soon, portable cassette players would reign.
Forty years ago, on July 1, , Sony's Walkman was released — and as the first portable cassette player, it revolutionized the way we listen to music. But the classic blue-and-silver Walkman didn't take off right away in Sales were slow at first. As a marketing campaign, Sony employees would ask people in the streets of Japan if they wanted to listen to a Walkman, which boosted the device's popularity. The Walkman did so well that by , cassettes finally began to outsell vinyl records.
But a new listening format was about to take off: the compact disc. In , we were introduced to compact discs — better known as CDs. The idea for it, according to Gizmodo, came from a meeting between two tech companies, Philips and Sony, in Both companies wanted something small, thin, and capable of holding approximately 74 minutes of audio.
Sony's first portable CD player was introduced just 2 years after the CD itself. The Discman was "the smallest and lightest CD player ever produced, and its sound invited comparison with almost any model, regardless of size," according to The New York Times.
The CD quickly became "the fastest-growing home entertainment product in history," according to writer Greg Milner. CD sales surpassed those of vinyl records in and cassettes in Not until the Sony Walkman came along. As the story goes , Sony co-founder Masaru Ibuka got the wheels turning months before when he asked for a way to listen to opera that was more portable than Sony's existing TC-D5 cassette players.
The charge fell to Sony designer Norio Ohga, who built a prototype out of Sony's Pressman cassette recorder in time for Ibuka's next flight. After a disappointing first month of sales, the Walkman went on to become one of Sony's most successful brands of all time, transitioning formats over the years into CD, Mini-Disc, MP3 and finally, streaming music. Over million Walkman portable music players have been sold, million of them cassette players.
Sony retired the classic cassette tape Walkman line in , and was forced to pay a huge settlement to the original inventor of the portable cassette player, Andreas Pavel. But the name lives on today in the form of new MP3 players and Sony's Walkman app. They heyday of the Walkman may be over, with kids today baffled and disgusted by the relative clumsiness of cassettes. But the habit it spawned — listening to music wherever and whenever you want — is bigger than ever.
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