It’s a cycle

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    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…

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      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?

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        CDs came out in the 80’s (1983, like the meme), DVDs hit ten years later in the mid-90’s.

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          I could have sworn that there was some blockbuster 90s media invention that was first created like a decade before it was commonly used.

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            EDIT: Actually Bluetooth is probably what you’re looking for. Invented in 1994, but not really widely used until the last 15 years or so. I would assume mostly because audio quality was so shit for so long. Further, Bluetooth uses Frequency-hopping Spread Spectrum, which was actually developed in World War II.


            I always considered cell phones (now just "phones) to be one of those things. In the 1980’s they had massive honking mobile phones, and in the 90’s fancier people had “car phones,” but actual common cell phone use didn’t really take off until the 2000’s in the USA and really only exploded in 2007, post-iPhone.

            I had a land-line until like 2005.

            It’s also interesting to note that the mobile-phone happened quicker in Japan. They had car-phones and a 1G network in 1979 and their first mobile handset came out in 1985, two years after Motorola. Also, texting was booming in Japan by the late 90’s/early 2000’s while Americans had barely just started, and were often using phone plans that only allowed for a limited number of texts. Texting adoption in the US was slow for a long time due to this.

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              The reason why the us was slower to adopt is probably rather simply, outside of large metro areas its a pain to get things like electricity or phone lines established. This means that it takes quite awhile before you can start expanding outside of metro areas but once the weight is there it generally expands pretty easily.

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              That is interesting. I’m not surprised Japan was ahead, but not by over a decade.

              My dad had a landline until probably 2018. I’m guessing it must have been bundled with some network package because he had two smart phones by then.

              The timeline of technology is absolutely crazy, especially phones. Like you mentioned, it hasn’t even been that long. I got my first “smartphone” in maybe 2012.

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      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.

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      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.

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      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.

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        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.

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      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.

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        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”

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          Problem was, I only ever met like 3 people rocking a Zune at my college. You needed to convince your friend group to adopt it with you.

          And like 3 months after the Zune launched, the gadget everyone was talking about was the first iPhone. The Zune was too late to the party. Everyone was about to jump to touch screen smartphones.

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            I remember around 2010 when Nokia smartphones were really good and could do much more than iPhones, but the marketing had already taken hold. Anything not iPhone was not considered a smartphone. Ironically.

            It’s a good thing Andriod happened then.

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              IMHO, even though the OG iPhone lacked MMS, 3G, GPS, and even copy / paste, the web browsing, gestures, and software fit and finish were game changers that everyone scrambled to catch up with. Ditto with the App Store. iOS had an App marketplace that was pretty damn big by the time that Android phones started shipping.

              IMHO, it wasn’t just marketing. There were compelling software features that made iOS something people wanted during 2007-2011

              But back to the original point, the Zune kind of released right when everyone was migrating their music collections to smart phones. It was a terribly timed product.

              And ironically, a lot of ground breaking touch screen work was being done in MS labs at the time. I remember seeing a lot of that demoed at conferences and in CS journals. If they had the foresight to apply that tech to their phones, the iPhone would’ve never taken off.

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          And calling sharing ‘Squirting’ was just the icing on the cake. “Hey babe, are you a squirter? Because I got some sick tunes to give you….”

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        I had the Creative Zen Nano lol. It acted like a USB flash drive too if you needed it to.

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    I am pretty sure this meme was made wrong on purpose for algorithm reasons by someone trying to drive more traffic to their page. Nothing like baiting people into correcting you in order to increase engagement.

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    Vinyl never actually stopped being the coolest, its a issue of affordability and convince, you cant put a Vinyl player in your car or carry it around all day…

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      Somehow for the majority of people yes. Despite them still being the one of the few services with no hifi

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        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.

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        Well…yeah. it’s easy and convenient using something I already carry everywhere with me and sounds perfectly fine to the majority of people.

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    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.

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      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.

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    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!