Remember Cassette Tapes?

With all the music available to us in digital format and all its conveniences, I'd like to harken way back to the days of audio cassette tapes.

We all know about records, or LPs, or vinyl, the scratches, the dirty needle, 45s. Now it's not as nearly bad when there was *no* musical media, say in 17th, 18th centuries, besides your imagination and live music, but cassette tapes, though portable (the Sony Walkman, when introduced, was a huge hit) was prevalent for awhile.

Despite it's portability, tapes got chewed up. Instead of the 10 gigs you have on your mp3 player, cassettes had a capacity of 60, 90, 120 minutes each. You had to switch sides. You had to rewind and fast forward to your song. There was hiss. Remember Dolby B and C? The liner notes were in small font to fit in those small cassette boxes. If you wanted to copy the tape, you had to copy it... *in real time*. No drag and drop, instant copy, done. Record and wait. Now that's one media type that will never come back.