The other day, me and my friend were getting hammered at his house and needed to put on some music. We both had MP3 players but no way to connect it to his stereo, so we searched through his parent's old tapes from the 60's and found a bunch of awesome compilations of songs, and had a great time.
We both agreed it was nice sometimes to play a tape, and not get up every 10 minutes because you wanted to listen to this particular song.
Nowadays, because of MP3 players, we have music-A.D.D...we always have our entire collection of music (or a significant part of it) at our fingertips, and can skip to any song within seconds.
The last time I had played a tape was maybe 7 to 10 years ago, but that night was a great experience.
Anyway, this doesn't directly answer the question, but I think it does show how technology has changed our behaviors with many aspects of life.
Not necessarily a bad thing, just different.
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