Before the Apple collective...

...there was the Walkman.  Happy Birthday to portable, personal music!

Sony Corporation sparked a revolution in personal electronics with the introduction of the first personal stereo cassette player. A device as astonishing on first encounter as the cellular phone or digital camera would later be, the Sony Walkman went on sale for the very first time on July 1, 1979.

Now, if we could just get people to realize that these marvelous devices are incompatible with crosswalks, operating machinery, and so on, life would be good... as I tell my Musketeers, there are a lot of times when literally tuning out the world around you is a very bad idea...