Reading all of this makes me feel very old

No 39 comment in the end: "selected day is, thankfully, behind us."

Bull sh**t

That guy, ....he do not know what is talking abut.(this is a big spot)

My own opinion.

17. Making Someone a Real Mix Tape

Status: Deceased

Web sites like Mixtape.com and Songza may attempt to fill the void, but the art of laboring over a custom-made mix tape tailored for a special occasion or a special person--as romanticized by John Cusack's character in High Fidelity --seems to have gone the way of electrical appliance repair and blacksmithing. It's a damn shame, too, because mix tapes made great gifts for dates (and by "great" I mean "potentially highly prized by the recipient and yet incredibly cheap and easy to assemble").



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33. Playing Music on an Audiocassette

Status: Nearly deceased

You can try to rewind, but the life of the cassette is on its last legs. If anyone knows a practical application for four boxes of late-1980s, early-1990s rock tapes, please advise.

22. Storing Data on a Floppy Disk

Status: Nearly deceased

A disk with 1.44MB of storage? Shyeah, right. The once-standard protocol for storing and transferring data seems puny by today's file-size standards. (And don't even get started with the truly floppy 5.25-inch variety.) Few new PCs are being built with floppy disk drives anymore; and as a result, the era of the A: prompt is in its twilight. As for the Zip drive, Iomega may still say it sells 'em--but is anyone buying it?

39. Rockin' Out With Your Boombox

Status: Nearly deceased

Your iPod may look cool, but can you balance it on your shoulder and blare your funky beats at obnoxiously high volumes? Didn't think so. The boombox-- also known as the jambox, the ghetto blaster, or the jerkface apparatus--reached its peak popularity during the 1980s, when big hair, stone-washed jeans, and bad dancing enjoyed similarly unaccountable heydays. Though updated editions of the boombox may be on the market today, the era of not being able to ride in peace on a randomly selected public conveyance on a randomly selected day is, thankfully, behind us.

well, at least he chose a decent boombox for illustration.

To be honest, he's right too. In the 80s there was often a boombox going (including mine) in any park or town centre. These days, it's a rare curiosity.
I saw some guys (skaters, I think) in Hyde Park on Sunday, & they had a Bose Acoustic Wave going. Nice to hear...