No Mirrors In My Nana's House

Do you know how hard it is to find a VCR in this town? I have a major presentation for my opera class today and the only video performance that was easily available (read: that I didn't have to buy) is on VHS. So I headed to the downtown library - no VCR. Okay, well, I hear that some friends to the north have a built-in VCR - I put the video in and the TV breaks (sorry, guys). I give in and make the trip to the campus library's recording room - eight TVs! On closer inspection: four are DVD only; two of the VCRs are broken; one keeps spitting the tape back out. The last one? There's no headphone jack (read: no sound in a shared recording room) - but video success!

Which got me thinking about other more-or-less obsolete technologies. Here today for you: the history of the boombox.



(originally via npr, now via youtube.)