Sony’s modern take on the iconic Walkman

The first Walkman seemed no less than magic when it was launched in 1979. This portable cassette player untethered music and allowed users to roam about with headphones looking cool and feeling free as they listened to music. The Walkman went on to become an iconic product with nothing else quite like it. The word Walkman even entered the Oxford English Dictionary in 1986 and had a major influence on 1980s’ culture. It had no competition while it remained a cassette player.

For those of us who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, our main music player was the original Sony Walkman. It was the very first personal music player for many of that generation. But the Walkman, like everything else, had to keep pace with changing technologies. Before it became an MP3 player, it was a ‘Discman’ using CDs instead of tapes.