The world changed forever on July 1st, 1979: the day that Sony released the iconic Walkman TPS-L2, the first real portable music player that would revolutionize the way we listened to music in a way that no other device really had ever done before. Forty years later and Walkmans aren’t exactly popular to use anymore (outside of things like Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy films, anyway), but the sea change that the Walkman caused in our lives is more apparent than ever.
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Virgin Megastore - On this day in 1979, the Sony Walkman TPS-L2 changed how the world listens to music. 🎧 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Yes Gen-Zs, your on-demand streaming platforms weren't born yet people had