You’ve Come A Long Way

In the year of 1989 I received a Walkman.  I loved that me and my cassette tapes could hit the road without a care in the world.  Me and New Kids On The Block could be together even while I was out walking around the block, and I thought I was the coolest kid in the neighborhood.  That is until I got my really sweet Discman portable compact disc player about five years later.  I had that thing well into the late nineties when I would jam out to some Britney Spears and the always adorable N Sync.  For a while though, my portable music days were over until after 2002 when I got my first generation iPod Nano.  Now that was a cool device.  All of my music right there in my hand.  If I wanted to listen to some Dashboard Confessional while burning some things from legalherbsdirect.com, it was there.  If I was in the mood for some country music, then country it was.  I was hooked.  Now, of course I use my iPhone for all of my music and just about anything else you can think of.  It’s amazing to see just how far portable music has come in the past 25 plus years, but thank goodness it has moved on.

I love the below infographic because it reveals how far it really has come.  You will see on it the infographic where portable music began in the 1950s all the way up to the current time and what portable music means today.  If you need to, click it to make it bigger.