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jes5199
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The Walkman, Forty Years On
I think they must be overstating the thing about headphones being unprecedented. Episode 1 of the sitcom “Dobie Gillis”, from 1959, introduces Bob Denver’s character by showing him listening to a transistor radio using an earpiece
klodolph
on July 4, 2020
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That’s an earpiece from a 1950s transistor radio. The sound quality is terrible and it only goes in one ear.
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