When Was the Walkman Introduced?

Video Transcript

"Hey! It's Rokosz, your digital lifestyle expert here, and we're takin' a walk on memory lane to discuss when the first Walkman was introduced and invented. Well, the Walkman is actually a brand name of Sony corporation, and over the years there'd been a lot of different devices that bear the Walkman name, but the OG, the Genesis, the Numero Uno of the bourgeois, the Sony Walkman Cassette player patented in 1978 and released in 1979. Just because carrying around those portable record players was starting to break people's necks and that was very difficult on the needles. No, I'm just kidding. But that was the revolution, and you'd think with that being released in the '70s nearly '80s, that would have stop the big Boombot revolution, but hey, the itch is on. In fact, to this day, the remnants of the release of that can still be seen, popularized by The Simpsons character, Otto, still wearing the headset with little orange pads, which were so cool. The red Boom boxes, definitely out of vogue. But the Walkman, the Walkman name has carried a lot of different, augmented different things over the years. In fact, it sort of moved into a device that I had at one point called the Sony Watchman, which was a little, tiny, black and white television. I was thinking about resurrecting it only moments ago, but just tearing down the barrel, the full digital conversion, all my efforts would be for not. But, followed by the Sony Cassette Walkman in the '79, I was also followed up by the CD player and the Walkman name, also, the Sony MZ1, with the mini-disc, which was still released under the Walkman name. Unto this day, they are still releasing small video or small audio players under the Walkman name, it's been a ubiquitous term, almost as Kleenex is to disposable tissue, name for a portable device. Give it a lot of pleasure to many people over the years including me, Rokosz, your digital lifestyle expert, sayin', stream you later."