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I’m Gen Z but I miss the good old days of flip phones and Sony Walkmans

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source link: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2023/04/01/gen-z-retro-tech-flip-phones-sony-walkmans/
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‘I’m Gen Z but I miss the good old days of flip phones and Sony Walkmans’

Despite growing up online, an increasing number of young people are driven by nostalgia for ‘retro tech’

By Claudia Rowan

1 April 2023 • 3:00pm
Claudia Rowan, 25, can relate to a growing nostalgia for 'retro tech'

Claudia Rowan, 25, can relate to a growing nostalgia for 'retro tech'

Credit: Jeff Gilbert

As a child in the early noughties, few Saturday activities quite matched the thrill of a family trip to HMV or Blockbuster Video. Scanning rows of colourful covers for that evening’s entertainment was a treat, as was arriving home with a new tape to watch (and re-watch). But the pleasure of this exercise – like that of filling my portable CD player with a new disc, or waiting for camera film to be developed – was soon forgotten as the digital age evolved....


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