Week #7 Someone's Technology Presentation

The cassette tape was invented by Phillips in 1962 in the county of Belgium. Anyone could make audio recordings with this technology. It had high quality recording features that were the best of its era. In 1965, Musicassettes were invented and became mainstream in America by the year 1966. Musicassettes were preloaded with content. With the introduction of the Walkman, the cassette tape become portable. Its popularity went on the decline with the release of compact disc or CD’s because of their better quality. Cassette tapes brought many things to the introduction of portable personal technology. Suddenly, anyone was able to record from the tapes now. Only people who worked in studios were able to do this before because of the knowledge required to use that complicated gear and profession. Now people could record audio without having to have the extensive knowledge or practice. Music then became more portable because it was now able to be recorded onto the cassette tapes and listened to with ease and on the go. There were also many features added to the cassette tapes such as noise reduction and the development of new tape to improve performance and overall sound quality.