Vinyl was already cool again way before 2008.
Also, 2008 was the era of loading up iPods and the like. Spotify as a phenomenon is much more recent.
Also, USB?
Now that I think about it, just about everything in this meme is wrong...
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?
I mean, shit, I had an MP3 player in 1999. Yeah it only had 32 MB, but at 64kpbs, I coud store a whole album on there.
There was a brief period where sticking a thumb drive into the pioneer stereo was slick AF
Where are the mp3 players?
Cd's was not really a thing in 83.
Source: Im old.
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.
I don't think cassette tapes were common in 63 either. They were using 8 track cassettes commonly before that.
CDs were more like 1992. I was around 5-6 then and distinctly remember getting Vanilla Ice's CD.
Nothing really makes sense here.
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.
Usb got big in like mid-00s.
We were still using CD players till 2005. I remember somewhere in '04 or '05 when 128mb mp3 players went rampant.
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.
Lol some clueless zoomer made this
OK boomer
Flash drive? More like a iPod.
I had that Creative Zen, thing was thick
I had the Creative Zen Nano lol. It acted like a USB flash drive too if you needed it to.
I used to own a flash drive that's also a mp3 player, it's pretty neat
of you go with ipod i guess you would put wurlizter and boombox
Pssht we're all about Edison cylinders now
One genuine point owed to retro hipster music formats though: you can't DRM them.
I'm sure you could come up with a way of recording binary code on the vinyl that could only be played back as music with the proper encryption key.
INB4 they start encoding it as dialup modem sounds.
This is so wrong that I am offended.
We are still in the era of Spotify?
Somehow for the majority of people yes. Despite them still being the one of the few services with no hifi
Well given this meme I figured it was just a stand in for streaming anyways.
Also I’m willing to bet the vast majority of people don’t even have the equipment to tell the difference between lossless and not.
Well....yeah. it's easy and convenient using something I already carry everywhere with me and sounds perfectly fine to the majority of people.
What are you using?
Spotify and trying out Apple Music.
what happened with spotify?
So, are we all going to just ignore the 8tracks?
Lol, this is off by decades and Spotify is away now popular than records right now
Where are the 8-tracks?
In Hell
Where it plays the same songs over and over in an endless loop. Until the head alignment gets off. Then it plays two different songs at the same time.
It's a cartridge tape. Think cassette tape inside a nes cartridge
OP never heard of em.
I guees I'm stuck in the 2000s as I still rocking my 10,000 mp3 collection lol
Where's the mini disc???
excuse me, pirated cds were all the rage in eastern europe in 2008
I assume people buy Vinyls of their favourite artists as a kind of poster (which also physically contains the music)... not to actually listen to it.
I consider it a way of actually supporting them. Sure I listen to them digitally 99% of the time but they get such a small cut from that.
And tape is just now starting to get popular again with the hipsters. Big reel-to-reel machines.
Place your bets on when playing midis on old Windows 3.1 computers will explode again!
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.
Stock up on cassettes right meow
