Total rewind: 10 key moments in the life of the cassette
▻http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/aug/30/cassette-store-day-music-tapes
Fifty years ago this month at a radio exhibition in Berlin, a three-inch-by-four-inch product was unveiled. Half a century on, it doesn’t look like much. But it was cheap, portable, easy to copy, and these simple, functional qualities held magic within them. They also helped the cassette revolutionise music for the masses, and shaped how music is used socially, creatively and psychologically.