I can't remember when I traded pirating music for my zune/iTouch for Spotify, but I know back in 2008 we were still using MP3 players. We were still in relatively early years with MP3 players, too. In 2010 I was still using my jailbroke iTouch 3, so we were still in the MP3 era until at least 2010. People also joked back then about vinyl snobs who made "audiophile" part of their personality. Records were cool and record shops were able to stay in business. Cassette sales were down on the other hand, because we were still getting over the trauma of them getting jammed and the excitement of having high quality digital music.
OP must be very young and just looked up what year things came out, not what year things were used. Weren't DVDs invented in the 80s?
You’re right. This post appears to be closer to when the tech was invented vs when they became mainstream. CDs were invented in 1982 but usage really didn’t take off until adoption in the 90s.
Cassettes weren't big until the eighties and cd's were nineties. USB? Sure, maybe. Spotify didn't become available for the US until 2011 (I waited patiently for that). And vinyl has definitely been coming back for quite some time now.
And vinyl has been hot again for decades. Especially when it was the only medium for DJ’ing - before digital turntables became a thing. Major cities have been littered with hipster vinyl shops for like 20 years.
Microsoft, Nov 2006: “we finally launched an iPod competitor”
Apple, Jan 2007: “standalone MP3 players are the past, behold the first multitouch smart phone”
Microsoft: “the Zune comes in brown”
Cassette tapes are also sort of coming back. There are modern ones are both USB compatible and compatible with old cassette players. They exist mostly for the market of people who own old cars that don't have modern radios.