twisted…
Of course I remember phonographs and vinyl records.
I was telling my 11 year old grandson about them and he looked at me and said… “But Saba, how did you listen to your music when you were outside walking around?” I said “Well, we did have little transistor radios we could listen to.”
He said “But how could you listen to the music YOU wanted to listen to?”
I told him “we couldn’t”.
He looked at me like I was from the stone age.
Here’s a bit of trivia…
Why are record albums called “albums”? (even now)
The answer…
Because the first records that came out were 78 rpm records (remember that speed choice on your record player?) The records spun so fast that the record companies could only record ONE song on a side. To sell a collection of songs, they would sell 3 or 4 or 5 records together in ONE (album) cover with envelope type pages in the cover, for each record in the ALBUM (like a photo album). Hence the term ALBUM, which is still used today, even for CDs.